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Potential impasse over NGO operations averted

    NAIROBI
    Intense negotiations have managed to avert a potential impasse between the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Association and NGOs over the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding for relief operators in south Sudan, according to reports from Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS). On 22 April, NGOs received a letter from the executive secretary of the SRRA - the humanitarian wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) - informing them that all NGOs should sign the attached MOU by 30 April or leave SPLM-held areas of south Sudan. OLS management and donors have negotiated the removal of the deadline, allowing ongoing discussion around "three clusters of outstanding issues".

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