Sudan (Hansard, 4 November 1998)

§ Dr. Tonge
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in Sudan. [58158]

§ Clare Short
The humanitarian situation remains acute. In Bahr el Ghazal mortality rates have fallen but in some parts of the region they remain unacceptably high. The World Food Programme has sufficient resources to meet all food aid needs in Sudan until April 1999. We continue to press for an extension to the cease-fire beyond Bahr el Ghazal because insecurity hampers access in many areas both to assess needs and to deliver supplies.

§ Mr. Dalyell
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will discuss with her American counterparts the provision of(a) anti-TB drugs and (b) chloroquinine and other anti-malarial drugs to the Sudan in quantities which would have been produced by the El Shifa factory, prior to its destruction. [57980]

§ Clare Short
I refer to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 3 November 1998,Official Report, column 403.