ABSTRACT
In Washington, AID began 1986 by proposing a PL-480 Title III program for Sudan that would for the first time authorize the sale of food commodities at concessional prices over a multiyear (1986-1988) period. To that end, it sought to enhance the capability of the nascent Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC), which the new military government had created in May 1985 to coordinate disaster relief in Sudan. Norwegian People's Aid (NPA), the humanitarian arm of the Norwegian trade union movement, had begun to provide humanitarian assistance during the Spanish Civil War; in Sudan it began by funding the movement of food aid from Kenya to Narus. The RRC opened an operational office manned by European logisticians at Khartoum International Airport, and donor supplies began to arrive. The RRC commissioner, who began with little more than an office and a secretary, approved all foreign food aid programs and reported directly to the Transitional Military Council (TMC).
