The World : Sudan Airlift Threatened

Sudanese rebels threatened to shoot down any aircraft flying to southern Sudan without their authorization, but U.N. organizers continued to prepare to airlift food to famine victims in the region. In a radio report monitored in Khartoum, a spokesman for the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army reiterated an earlier warning that anyone flying over the war-torn, hunger-plagued south “would be doing so at their own risk.” Organizers of the planned airlift said they will fly emergency food to the government-controlled towns of Juba and Malakal on Wednesday. Last month, the rebels shot down a Sudanese airliner over Malakal, killing all 60 people aboard.