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| Sudan accused of withholding rations for Darfur peacekeepers |
| 2015-10-15 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and Britannia on Wednesday accused the Sudanese government of refusing to release food rations and other essential supplies for international peacekeepers in the conflict-torn Darfur region. Britannia's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said he was planning to raise the issue of the United Nations-African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western Darfur region, known as UNAMID, during Wednesday's meeting of the U.N. Security Council on unrelated issues. "We're very worried that the government of Sudan is preventing UNAMID from doing its job, specifically they are holding up crucial rations and other supplies in Port Sudan that are destined to go to the UNAMID troops," he told news hounds on the way into the council chamber. "They are not complying with their obligations to support UNAMID," he said. If the supplies are not released quickly, he said, UNAMID would have to make alternative arrangements which would increase the monthly cost for delivering such supplies to UNAMID from some $3 million to around $13 million. U.N. front man Stephane Dujarric told news hounds that the holdup involved around 190 containers, mostly food rations but also a few containers with what he described as "operational supplies." "It's important to note that the current food ration level in the mission area is of great concern to us," Dujarric said. "We obviously urge the government of Sudan to release the containers immediately." |
| Posted by:Fred |