The Red Cross During War

Sudan, 1987. Food and seed distribution in Mogoth.
Yannick Muller / ICRC

Sudanese Suffering
The Sudanese await food and seed distribution in Mogoth, 1987. Four years previously, the civil war had been reignited following President Gaafar Nimeiry's decision to refuse to acknowledge the Addis Ababa Agreement, a series of compromises originally reached in 1972 that aimed to appease the leaders of the insurgency in southern Sudan after the first war had proved costly to the government in the north.

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