KHARTOUM, Sudan
Sudan on Friday rejected any plan for an aid "corridor" to war-torn southern states after the United States warned of a possible "horrific" famine affecting civilians in the area.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said the Security Council "would have to review a variety of other options" to get food to people in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states if famine breaks out.
The government is battling ethnic rebels once allied to insurgents who now rule in South Sudan which be-came independent from Khartoum last July after decades of civil war.
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Sudan on Friday rejected any plan for an aid "corridor" to war-torn southern states after the United States warned of a possible "horrific" famine affecting civilians in the area.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said the Security Council "would have to review a variety of other options" to get food to people in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states if famine breaks out.
The government is battling ethnic rebels once allied to insurgents who now rule in South Sudan which be-came independent from Khartoum last July after decades of civil war.
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