UN air planes at Lokichoggio airport (Kenya) flying food aid to southern Sudan
UN air planes flying food supplies from Lokichoggio (Turkana, Kenya), the main relief centre, into the SPLA-administered area in southern Sudan. In 1988, the United Nations Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar asked the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to organize a special relief operation in Sudan. This decision was taken against the backdrop of repeated media reports of a high death toll resulting from war-induced famine. For southern Sudan, some sources put the figure as high as 500,000 persons, most of them children and the aged. It aimed to get sufficient food aid into southern Sudan to feed approximately two million civilians, bringing in 100,000 tons of food over a six-week period before the rainy season made the roads impassable. It was code-named Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), and officially launched on 1 April 1989 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Location: Lokichoggio airport, 6am
Photo credit: © Ulrich Doering / Alamy / Afripics
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