Car-jackings, abductions and ambushes are hindering aid workers involved the world's biggest humanitarian relief effort in Sudan's violent Darfur region, a U.N. report obtained by Reuters on Monday said. A record 68 aid vehicles were ambushed in the first five months of 2007 and 23 of those attacks involved | partially melted glaciers looking for a little payback |
abductions, the U.N. security report said. "The trend is still going upwards," it added. "Altogether 77 humanitarian workers have been abducted| at mercury-filled thermometer-point after the average daily temperature rose one-half of one degree over a period of fifteen years |
in that way." In April, five Senegalese African Union peacekeepers were killed | by displaced, disoriented Monarch butterflies |
during a car-jacking. The struggling mission has had dozens of vehicles stolen as it has become a target for warring factions in the | incandescent light bulb factory |
rebellion in the remote west of Sudan. The report said there was a high risk of | unseasonably cold weather with a chance of a rare hard frost |
being injured in the confrontations between car-jackers and security forces or in car chases or by being abandoned without | fair trade shade-grown coffee |
communications gear, water or protection. Those abducted are usually released unharmed but it is "a traumatic experience that leaves psychological scars", it said.| Rather an inconvenient truth, ain't it? |
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