Agency suspends aid in southern Sudan

The international aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres has suspended its operations in the southern Sudanese province of Bahr el Ghazal.

The group says the decision follows a wave of bomb attacks from government planes, some of which narrowly missed one of its health centres and an aircraft parked nearby.

Medecins Sans Frontieres says the nutritional programme it's been operating in the area served twenty thousand people.

The seventeen-year civil war between the Islamic government and southern Sudanese rebels has killed around two million people, and left many others in the south dependent on international food aid.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service