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 Re: الأمم المتحدة : الخرطوم تعرقل المساعدات الإنسانية لدارفور (Re: Zoal Wahid)
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Sudan hinders aid groups - U.N.
Tue Jun 15, 2004 03:04 AM ET
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan is blocking aid groups from getting food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people in its western Darfur region, despite promises to the contrary, senior U.N. and U.S. officials say.
U.N. Undersecretary-General Jan Egeland, the emergency relief coordinator, said most U.N. relief groups had access, but the world body also relied on non-governmental organisations, which faced bureaucratic obstacles.
"Some ministers are helping us, but some of their subordinates are sabotaging us," he told reporters on Monday after briefing the U.N. Security Council on civilians in war zones.
Groups such as Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) are experiencing undue delays in getting visas and bringing in equipment, medicine and food.
For example, Egeland said, radios needed for emergency communications were stripped from vehicles because Sudanese authorities believed they were a security liability.
"If they have no radio, they cannot go into Darfur," he said. "They see this as a security risk for the government. We see it as a security necessity for us."
The United Nations estimates fighting in Darfur has affected more than two million people. More than half have been driven from their homes, with 130,000 fleeing into neighbouring Chad to escape Arab militia that have killed, tortured and raped African villagers.
Despite a cease-fire, Egeland said, "We are still seeing grown men attacking defenceless woman and children with their automatic rifles." Some U.N. officials have accused Sudanese troops of acting in concert with the militia, a charge Khartoum has denied.
Egeland estimated that 800,000 people would receive food rations by the end of the month and this figure would increase to 2 million by October.
But he feared epidemics would break out because water was scarce; wells were dry, and health facilities were scarce.
U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher demanded that all sides in the conflict allow humanitarian agencies to do their work. Continued ...
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