Food as a weapon of war in Sudan

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Mother and child seen at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in South Kordofan, Feb. 4, 2012. The people of South Kordofan have been under constant attack, forcing them to flee their homes and seek shelter where they can.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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Civilians near watch the SAF Antinov bomber as it circles overhead on Feb. 6, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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New recruits training at a SPLA-N training Institute in South Kordofan on Feb. 8 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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SPLA-N soldiers seen listening to a lecture at the SPLA headquarters on Jan. 29 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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“Sudan is a sovereign state,” said Valerie Amos, the UN’s emergency coordinator, on a recent visit to Juba, South Sudan. “They have made it clear that they will see any kind of cross-border operations as a hostile act.”
Tank shells of an unknown origin captured from the SAF seen at the SPLA-N base in South Kordofan on Jan. 29, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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SPLA-N soldiers perform a parade at their headquarters in South Kordofan on Jan. 31, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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New recruits training at a SPLA-N training Institute in South Kordofan, Feb. 8, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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SPLA-N soldiers look around an abandoned building in the town of Tess, Jan. 30 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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SPLA-N soldiers perform a parade at their headquarters in South Kordofan, Jan. 31, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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The U.S. and UN have been scrambling to get food to the conflict zone. Koko Omar, aged one, is fed by intravenous injection. He is suffering from severe malnutrition, at the Mother of Mercy Hospital, in South Kordofan, Feb. 4, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]
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Officer training at a SPLA-N training Institute in South Kordofan, Feb. 8, 2012.
- [Chris Kelly/GlobalPost]

The Sudanese army are dropping thousands of bombs on their own people, kidnapping and killing their own citizens, destroying entire villages and waging what has been described as an ethnically motivated war in which the Arab aggressors are seeking to wipe out the African tribes that live in the Nuba Mountains.
No doubt the vast reserves of oil and minerals that lie underneath the ground there are an added incentive for removing a people who fought against the Khartoum regime, on the side of the SPLA, during the previous civil wars.