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Sudan urged to improve aid access
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Monday 08 May 2006 6:27 AM GMT
Darfur refugees await the arrival of Jan Egeland in Gereida
The top UN humanitarian official called on Sunday for aid workers to
be given better access to Sudan's Darfur region.
Jan Egeland, the UN under-secretary for humanitarian affairs on his
first visit to Darfur since Sudan barred him from visiting last month,
said he would press rebel leaders outside the peace agreement to join
it.
Sudan's government and the largest rebel group in Darfur, a faction of
the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), signed the agreement in Abuja,
Nigeria, on Friday, but two other factions have refused to do so.
Aid workers in Darfur say they face the threat of expulsion and are
hindered from providing aid by government restrictions on movement.
Humanitarian work
The peace agreement calls on all parties to improve humanitarian
access to help aid operations.
"In the peace agreement in Abuja, there is unlimited access granted in
all Darfur for all humanitarian organisations, but this is not the
practice," Egeland said after meeting Salah Mostafa, a deputy governor
for South Darfur state.
"We need more resources for humanitarian work from the whole world,
including the West, Islamic and Arab countries and Asian countries,"
he told reporters.
Egeland talks to a tribal leader
in the town of Gereida
The United Nations said last month that it would cut food rations for
more than 6 million people in Sudan, half of them in Darfur, due to a
lack of funds.
In Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, a group of about 25 men
protested against Egeland's visit.
A banner read: "We condemn the aggression by Scandinavian countries
against the Prophet Mohammad", a reference to cartoons in a Danish
newspaper of the Prophet Mohammad.
Egeland is Norwegian, and Sudan said one of the reasons he could not
travel to Darfur in April was because it could not guarantee his
safety.
Rebel area
Egeland later travelled to the rebel-held area of Gereida, where he
urged SLA commanders to instruct their forces to respect the
agreement.
"Never before has so much been at stake in Darfur. This is the moment
of truth not only for the parties to show their willingness to help
their own people to get out of this vicious circle, but also for the
international community to show solidarity," he told Reuters.
Representatives for Sudan and the
SLA sign the peace deal in Abuja
Egeland said the African Union force in Darfur had to monitor whether
the peace deal was respected.
Three years of fighting between Darfur rebels and the Sudanese
government has killed tens of thousands of people and forced 2
million to flee their homes.
Rights group
On Sunday, a human rights group said Darfur's warring factions must
stop attacking humanitarian agencies.
Human Rights Watch, in a briefing, said aid workers are struggling to
reach civilians in dire need of help.
"After three years of horrendous attacks, more than three million
people in Darfur depend on international aid to survive," Peter
Takirambudde, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a
statement.
"The warring parties must give humanitarian aid workers access to
those in need," Takirambudde said.
The group said civilians are at risk from attacks in Darfur as aid
workers face mounting insecurity, targeted attacks and "administrative
obstruction" by the Sudanese government.
Under international humanitarian law, the group said the warring
parties "must allow impartial humanitarian agencies to assist
civilians, and attacks on aid workers or deliberate obstruction of
relief efforts can constitute war crimes".
Agencies
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