Rift between UN, Sudan deepens with envoy's expulsion
Jan Pronk flew out of Khartoum yesterday following his expulsion by the Sudanese government that effectively ended his two-year stint as United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan's special representative.
Pronk's expulsion deepens the rift between President Umar al-Bashir's government and the international community over demands that Sudan allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur to help halt violence that has killed as many as 200,000 people and driven two million more from their homes.
"It's looking increasingly grim how Sudan and the UN can patch this up," Anoushka Marashlian, Middle East analyst at Global Insight, a consultant and forecasting company, said today in a telephone interview from London.
Jan Pronk flew out of Khartoum yesterday following his expulsion by the Sudanese government that effectively ended his two-year stint as United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan's special representative.
Pronk's expulsion deepens the rift between President Umar al-Bashir's government and the international community over demands that Sudan allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur to help halt violence that has killed as many as 200,000 people and driven two million more from their homes.
"It's looking increasingly grim how Sudan and the UN can patch this up," Anoushka Marashlian, Middle East analyst at Global Insight, a consultant and forecasting company, said today in a telephone interview from London.
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