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Carol Bellamy will visit several locales in Sudan

Ms. Bellamy said she warmly welcomes the three-month ceasefire recently declared by the Government and the SPLM and expressed hopes that her visit would affirm the peace process and help focus needed attention on continuing famine conditions in southern Sudan.

The UNICEF chief will arrive in Khartoum on Monday for meetings with Government officials. She will proceed from there to visit feeding centres in Bahr el Ghazal in the South. She will visit the Government-controlled town of Wau and SPLM-controlled areas in the region.

"The world needs to be aware of the desperation in southern Sudan," Ms. Bellamy said. "At the same time it has been increasingly clear that the solution lies not only in the delivery of adequate assistance but in achieving a lasting settlement of a war that has already devastated the lives of millions.”

The situation in Bahr el Ghazal continues to deteriorate. UNICEF's recently-conducted nutritional surveys in 12 SPLM-held locations showed that, on average, 50.9 per cent of the children are malnourished. In response, the ongoing humanitarian operation mounted by Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) is preparing to double the number of children in its feeding programmes to about 38,000.

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