By Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 21 March 2009 UNITED NATIONS — The humanitarian situation in Darfur continues to deteriorate in the wake of Sudan’s decision to expel major foreign aid organizations from the country, a top United Nations official told the Security Council on Friday, with a majority of Council members sharply criticizing Khartoum [...]
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UN Official Discusses Impact of Darfur Aid Group Expulsion
Posted in News Updates, tagged Aid, Aid group expulsion, Darfur, UN on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Camps in Darfur Struggle with Aid Group Explusion
Posted in News Updates, tagged Aid, Darfur, Sudan on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LA Times, Edmund Sanders, March 17, 2009 Reporting from Zam Zam Camp, Sudan — Feverish and dehydrated since fleeing to this overcrowded displacement camp last month, 2-year-old Manahel Abakar was supposed to be one the beneficiaries of the International Criminal Court effort to bring justice to Darfur. Instead she became one of its unintended casualties. [...]
IRC Considered, but Rejected, Policy of Cooperation with ICC
Posted in News Updates, tagged Aid, ICC, IRC, Sudan on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Louis Charbonneau, Reuters, 16 March 2009 UNITED NATIONS, March 16 (Reuters) – A humanitarian aid group expelled by Sudan said on Monday it had considered cooperating with the International Criminal Court investigation of crimes in Darfur but promptly dismissed the idea. The International Rescue Committee is one of 13 foreign humanitarian non-governmental organizations that [...]
Sudan wants aid groups to stop distributing relief within a year
Posted in News Updates, tagged Aid, Bashir, Darfur, ICC, Sudan on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Khaled Abdelaziz and Andrew Heavens, Reuters, 16 March 2009 KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s president said on Monday he wanted foreign aid groups to stop distributing aid in Sudan within a year, in an escalation in the country’s defiant response to an international war crimes warrant against him. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir expelled 13 international [...]
Aid Workers Freed in Darfur
Posted in News Updates, tagged Aid, Darfur, Doctors Without Borders, Sudan on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Workers Freed in Darfur March.14.2009 (CNN) — The four Doctors Without Borders staffers abducted earlier this week in Sudan’s Darfur region have been “safely released,” the group said on Saturday. Members of the humanitarian group Medecins San Frontieres are greeted at the airport after their release. Canadian nurse Laura Archer, Italian doctor Mauro D’Ascanio, French [...]
Sudan Gov’t: Kidnapped Aid Workers to be Freed Soon
Posted in News Updates, tagged Aid, Doctors Without Borders, Sudan on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VOA News, 14 March 2009 Sudanese officials say three foreign aid workers who were kidnapped in Darfur earlier this week will be freed shortly. Earlier reports said the Canadian nurse, Italian doctor and French coordinator had already been released. Sudanese staff who were with the trio at the time of their abduction have been freed. [...]
ICC Observers Commentary: Importance of a Genocide Charge for Activist Groups in the US and Europe
Posted in Commentaries, tagged Aid, ICC, Sudan on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Marc Gustafson, 09 March 2009 Last week, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber chose not to include genocide in the arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir. Writers from ICC Observers raised an important question in response to the ICC’s decision: what does this mean for activist groups who are focused on Darfur? The answer to this question [...]
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