ABSTRACT
Kamal Shawki first turned to USAID-Sudan, but it stubbornly maintained that its primary role was as an agency for economic development, and its new director, John Koehring, was a career development man who had no interest in stopgap food aid programs. Military security agents routinely investigated reports that the agencies had provided food to the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) when, in fact, they had no food in Wau to give to anyone. After the departure of James Bishop, it wanted no part of John Garang, the SPLA, the SRRA, or, by year's end, another Operation Rainbow. Garang's New Year's message directly blamed Sadiq for the war's continuation: "Peace had not come to the authors's country because the government of PM Sadiq al-Mahdi is seeking a military solution, and has rejected the Koka Dam Declaration as the basis of the proposed National Constitutional Conference.
