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Roger P. Winter is former assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance of the US Agency for International Development and former special representative of the US deputy secretary of state for Sudan.

Roger P. Winter is executive director of the United States Committee on Refugees.

Sudan today is confronting the possibility of preventable human death on a massive scale. The framework for responding has dramatically deteriorated in the last year. The scope of the disaster is essentially nationwide with 9 to 11 million people in jeopardy of starvation. About half of the at-risk population is war-related, and half drought-related— but the two forces are interacting to produce the level of vulnerability. This contrasts somewhat with the at-risk population in 1988, which was made up primarily of war affected southerners, of whom a quarter-of-a-million died.

This paper is an update to the 1985 report (Human rights in Uganda: the reasons for refugees - H 221: Aff 324 HU). It seeks to examine very briefly some of the reasons why the post-Obote military government failed to retain power, and its impact on the lives of refugees and displaced persons. It describes the situation of those same people today - a complex, but solvable, problem which the new government of Yoweri Museveni - who came to power on January 29, 1986, four days after the National Resistance Army (NRA) stormed Kampala - is faced