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Thursday, June 4, 1998 Published at 14:25 GMT 15:25 UK
World: Africa
Red Cross goes back to south Sudan
Red Cross workers are resuming activities to aid the peope of southern Sudan
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has resumed operations in war-torn southern Sudan after suspending them 19 months ago.
Red Cross workers have begun flying to towns held by the government as well as those controlled by the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, the SPLA.
The ICRC suspended operations in November 1996 after a rebel faction allied with the government seized a relief plane and detained three Red Cross workers for more than five weeks.
The plane was returning to southern Sudan five SPLA fighters who had been treated in the Kenyan border town of Lokichogio where ICRC operates a hospital.
Sudan claimed the plane was carrying arms for the rebels, which ICRC denied.
An estimated 1.5m people have died in the fighting and related famines in southern Sudan.
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