Is there really a famine in Sudan? Not yet, claim British aid agencies who say the problem is over access not money, writes Jeremy Laurance From: The Independent - London | Date: May 7, 1998| Author: Jeremy Laurance | Copyright 1998 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THERE IS no famine in southern Sudan. British aid agencies say there is a "food crisis" and some people are starving but they fear that a major appeal launched now could undermine efforts to raise money when a real famine arrives, possibly in a year's time.

A famine is defined as a shortage of food so serious that people are driven from their homes in a mass migration, as occurred in Ethiopia in 1984. Southern Sudan has suffered years of civil war and a current drought which has reduc...

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