War in southern Sudan expands the circle of poverty

The workshop on poverty's frames and criterion which was held in Khartoum this week stressed that the expansion of the circle of poverty in Sudan is because of the continued war in Southern Sudan and the accumulation of the Sudanese debts, stressing the need to finding out a prompt solution to this problem which has been continuously escalated.

Samia Ahmad Muhammad, a specialist, said in her debate to the workshop which was held at al-Zubeir center in Khartoum that poverty rate in Khartoum reached its peak and urged specialists to provide optimum proposals to fight poverty.

The director of the central bureau for statistics in Sudan, Hassan Abdul Salaam said that the eruption of war in Sudan and the deterioration of natural resources resulted in the spread of poverty.

On the other hand, the World Food program disclosed that the heavy rainfall which blocked the land routes in certain areas affected by the drought in the southern and northern parts of Sudan, obliged supervisors of the program to throw the foodstuffs by planes for almost 200,000 citizens who are affected and damaged by the war.