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السودان يطرد إثنين من كبار المسؤولين للأمم المتحدة Sudan Expels 2 Senior UN officials
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“The UNAMID forces have become a security burden for us more than a support, and they are incapable of defending themselves. These forces came to protect the rebellion and not the citizen,” Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir said.
Sudan has asked two senior United Nations officials to leave the country, U.N. sources told Reuters Thursday. This comes after attacks on aid officials and President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s characterization of U.N. missions as a “security burden” and his accusations they are protecting anti-government rebels.
The U.N. sources identified the two officials asked to leave Sudan as Ali Al-Za'tari, resident coordinator at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Yvonne Helle, the UNDP's country director.
“The UNAMID forces have become a security burden for us more than a support and they are incapable of defending themselves. These forces came to protect the rebellion and not the citizen,” Bashir told a press conference.
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told Reuters in New York that the U.N. is filing a claim with the Sudanese government.
Sudan had already ordered UNAMID to close down its human rights office in Khartoum in November and requested that the organization prepare an exit strategy. The decision came a few days after it denied a second visit by the peace mission to Tabit, a village in Darfur, where allegedly 200 women and girls were mass-raped on October 31 by Sudanese soldiers, a claim which the al-Bashir government denies.
Instead, Al-Bashir blasted "foreign powers" for using the rape claims to mask the reality on the ground, that in fact the region has reportedly become more stable since the Sudanese defeated the rebel troops.
"They want to bring this issue to the fore to cover up improving conditions in Darfur and the development projects being launched there," the Sudanese president said.
In April, the Sudanese government similarly told the U.S. director of the U.N. Population Fund to leave for "interfering" in internal affairs.
Darfur has been an unstable region fraught with violence since 2003, when rebels revolted against the Khartoum government. The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 people have been killed in the region since the fighting started. Sudan accuses South Sudan, which seceded from the Khartoum-led Republic of Sudan in July 2011, of supporting anti-government rebels operating in the Darfur region and in the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
U.N. sources said Helle, a Dutch national, has been told to leave Sudan by Dec. 29 and Za'tari, a Jordanian, will depart by Jan. 2.
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