Khartoum - A pro-government official in south Sudan has said 50 people a day are dying in Wau, the main town in the hunger-stricken state of Bahr al-Ghazal. The independent Khartoum daily Akhbar al-Youm on Thursday quoted Mr Riek Machar, head of the Co-ordinating Council loyal to Sudan's Islamist government, as saying that more than 77,000 displaced people who had fled to Wau in recent months were facing disaster.
The former rebel leader said more than 3,000 had died in two months.
