Top Darfur official says world feeling "fatigue" over region’s prolonged crisis
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June 10, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the Darfur Regional Authority
(DRA), Eltigani Seisi said today that the international and regional
communities as well as the local community is beginning to feel
fatigue stemming from from the situation in the region due to
continued deterioration of security caused by armed groups and tribal
conflicts.
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Sudan’s Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) leader Eltigani Seisi,
speaks to the AFP during an interview in the Sudanese capital
Khartoum, on August 7, 2012 (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/GettyImages)
Seisi called for a halt to all forms of violence so that DRA could
start implementing development projects and warned if they do not
start in two months time, "we will not be able to answer for that".
The Darfur official appealed to non-signatory armed groups to join the
Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) signed in May 2011.
Seisi, who was addressing the opening session of first annual
conference of civil society organizations in Darfur and the follow-up
mechanism on strategic planning in Al-Fashir yesterday, called for
unity among the people of Darfur who suffered from civil war and
tribal conflicts.
He noted that donors have raised considerable amounts of money for the
development and reconstruction projects through the International
Donor Conference for Reconstruction and Development in Darfur (IDCRDD)
which was held in Doha last April in addition to financial allocations
from Sudan’s government which amounted to 800 million pound (SDG).
He disclosed that donors’ money will be allocated through the World
Bank and the United Nations as well as the donor nations, while a
committee comprised of the central government, the DRA, and Darfur
states would oversee allocation of the 800 million SDG in
reconstruction projects and voluntary repatriation.
The former rebel leader also spoke about the implementation of the
DDPD as well as the implementation of the voluntary return programs
for the internally displaced persons and refugees, pointing that Qatar
allocated $560 million for that.
Darfur has been a flashpoint for lawlessness and violence since rebel
movements took up arms against the Khartoum government in 2003.
The United Nations estimates as many as 300,000 people have been
killed and almost 3 million people have been displaced during the
ongoing conflict.
According to the UN Human Rights Council, 400,000 people have been
killed and 2.5 million displaced.
The Sudanese government, however, put the number of dead at only 10,000.
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