Monday, September 20, 2004

*Ø* Patience with Sudan running out

"Johannesburg -- The world's patience is running out on war-torn Darfur and Sudan has to immediately stop all rights abuses and end a cycle of broken promises, a senior Amnesty International official said on Sunday.

"The warning came a day after the UN Security Council passed a resolution warning that it 'will envisage' sanctions against Sudan's vital oil industry, after consulting with the African Union, unless Khartoum delivers on pledges to protect the people of Darfur."
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Can you afford 10 cents?

If you add the contents of a sachet of Oral Rehydration Salts to clean boilded water and give it to a child who is dying from diarrhoeal dehydration, within a few short hours you'll have saved that child's life. Can you imagine what it must be like when there are no sachets left? A life-saving sachet costs only 10 cents.

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