July Dear Craig, I've received your email through Charlie. It's not easy to answer completely. It seems that World Food Programme initially under-estimated the scale of the famine and the number of displaced people in Southern Sudan. So, a tremendous amount has gone in over the past 2 months. Some of the difficulties on the ground are the poor state of the roads and now that it is raining there are many lorries stuck in the mud.
Some people are too weak to walk to distribution points.
I have just returned from 10 days in an area east of the Nile. There the problem is the lateness of the rain. Crops have been planted, but will not bring a harvest unless the rains come soon. There may be famine next year. I did not see any overly thin people or malnourished children.