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| Al-Bashir: Darfur won't need foreign aid in a year |
| 2009-03-17 |
| Sudan will no longer need any international NGOs in war-ravaged Darfur in a year's time, President Omar al-Bashir said on Monday amid rising tensions with the international community. "I ordered humanitarian affairs officials that in one year we don't want any foreign aid organisation working on the ground with our citizens and that Sudanese organisations will fulfil this role," in Darfur, al-Bashir said. "If they want to bring in aid, they will have to leave it at the airport," he added, addressing a rally by thousands of Sudanese soldiers in the capital Khartoum. Sudan expelled 13 foreign NGOs from Darfur after the International Criminal Court on March 4 issued an arrest warrant against al-Bashir for alleged crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur. The targeted organisations included Britain's Oxfam, the US Care as well as the Dutch and French sections of Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The United Nations has said that more than a million people have already been affected by the expulsion of the aid organisations. Khartoum disputes the figure, saying it is able to carry out the NGOs' work, which includes distributing food aid as part of UN programmes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Planning to kill off all the "surplus population", Omar? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-03-17 04:50 |