American Envoy Gration Claims Darfur On Brink Of Deeper
Crisis
Sudanese News Updates
8 April 2009
Khartoum - The new US special envoy
to Sudan said on Saturday the country's Darfur region
was on the brink of a deeper humanitarian crisis and
would need new aid groups to replace those expelled by
the Khartoum government.
Speaking to reporters from north Darfur, envoy Scott
Gration said he had just visited Zamzam refugee camp
in Darfur and warned that water there could run out in
a matter of weeks.
"We are on the brink of a deeper crisis in Darfur,"
Gration said. "We have to come up with solutions on
the ground in the next few weeks."
We have to increase the capacity and number of aid
agencies that are able to move aid assistance from the
warehouses to the distribution points and then to the
hands and mouths of the people in these camps."
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir expelled 13 foreign
aid organisations and closed three local groups in
March, accusing them of helping the International
Criminal Court issue an arrest warrant against him for
alleged war crimes in Darfur, in western Sudan. The
groups deny working with the court.
It is Gration's first visit since Obama named the
retired Air Force general in March as special envoy to
war-ravaged Sudan, picking a close adviser with broad
experience in the region to lead US efforts on the
worsening humanitarian situation in Darfur.
International experts say at least 200 000 people have
died and more than 2.7 million have been driven from
their homes in almost six years of ethnic and
politically driven fighting in Darfur. Khartoum says
10 000 people have died.
Gration's predecessor Richard Williamson, appointed by
former president George Bush, had stormy relations
with Sudan and suspended talks on normalising
relations in 2008, saying northern and southern
Sudanese leaders were not serious about reconciliation
after a decades-long civil war. - Reuters
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