Sudan could plunge into new war: aid agencies

KHARTOUM (AFP)

“It is not yet too late to avert disaster, but the next 12 months are a crossroads for Africa’s largest country,” said the report’s co-author, Maya Mailer, from Oxfam.

“Last year saw a surge in violence in southern Sudan. This could escalate even further and become one of the biggest emergencies in Africa in 2010,” she added.

In 2009, some 2,500 people were killed and 350,000 fled their homes, a higher death toll than occurred in war-torn Darfur in the same period.

AFP