"The president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has been accused of continuing to deny UN organisations access to a quarter of a million increasingly desperate people, despite pledges to allow humanitarian aid into rebel-held areas. In August al-Bashir decreed that, after more than a year of restrictions, aid would be allowed into the battered states of south Kordofan and Blue Nile, in the south of Sudan. But nearly two months on, sources on the ground reported to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism that they have still seen no supplies coming into the region." (Quoted from article)