Amos Sudan visit to include Darfur after meetings in Khartoum
Baroness Valerie Amos, Under Secretary General of the UN Agency for Humanitarian Affairs arrived in Khartoum on Monday, will meet with officials in Khartoum on Tuesday, and will also include Darfur in her visit. Ali Al Zaatari, UN resident coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, told reporters that after meeting with the First Deputy President in Khartoum on Monday, Baroness Amos has a number of visits planned for the day and will then travel to Darfur. Al Zataari added that she will meet with President Bashir on Thursday. Al Zaatari stressed that the overall humanitarian situation in Sudan is at the top of the agenda during the assistant Secretary General’s visit. He explained that Darfur and South Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Abyei are key topics for discussion. Displaced people across Darfur have appealed to assistant secretary general to their actual reports into account, rather than relying on government information. A letter to the UN asserts that, contrary to official government information, the displaced in the conflict zones of Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile are suffering from poor humanitarian conditions, dire food shortages, as well as a lack of security and medical services. A Zalingei camp coordinator requested that Baroness Amos conduct a comprehensive assessment of the situation as well as negotiate the return of aid organisations that have been expelled by the government. The coordinator also criticised Unamid and the UN for ignoring the humanitarian conditions and the State of Emergency in the conflict zones, which “clearly violates the rights of the displaced persons”. The coordinator accused the government of ignoring the displaced with help of the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). He told Radio Dabanga that “facts are changed or removed in all the HAC reports on which the UN depends”. The UN has called for a change in Unamid’s mandate to enable the mission to protect the displaced in accordance with the procedures agreed upon by the Security Council.File photo
Baroness Valerie Amos, Under Secretary General of the UN Agency for Humanitarian Affairs arrived in Khartoum on Monday, will meet with officials in Khartoum on Tuesday, and will also include Darfur in her visit.
Ali Al Zaatari, UN resident coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, told reporters that after meeting with the First Deputy President in Khartoum on Monday, Baroness Amos has a number of visits planned for the day and will then travel to Darfur. Al Zataari added that she will meet with President Bashir on Thursday.
Al Zaatari stressed that the overall humanitarian situation in Sudan is at the top of the agenda during the assistant Secretary General’s visit. He explained that Darfur and South Kordofan, the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile and Abyei are key topics for discussion.
Displaced people across Darfur have appealed to assistant secretary general to their actual reports into account, rather than relying on government information. A letter to the UN asserts that, contrary to official government information, the displaced in the conflict zones of Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile are suffering from poor humanitarian conditions, dire food shortages, as well as a lack of security and medical services.
A Zalingei camp coordinator requested that Baroness Amos conduct a comprehensive assessment of the situation as well as negotiate the return of aid organisations that have been expelled by the government. The coordinator also criticised Unamid and the UN for ignoring the humanitarian conditions and the State of Emergency in the conflict zones, which “clearly violates the rights of the displaced persons”.
The coordinator accused the government of ignoring the displaced with help of the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). He told Radio Dabanga that “facts are changed or removed in all the HAC reports on which the UN depends”.
The UN has called for a change in Unamid’s mandate to enable the mission to protect the displaced in accordance with the procedures agreed upon by the Security Council.
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