Darfur: UN working to reverse expulsions
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, 9 March 2009 - John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator is providing an update on the humanitarian situation in Sudan. The United Nations top humanitarian official said today that the world organization continues to strive at all levels to reverse the ordered departure of 13 major aid groups from Sudans war-torn Darfur region. At the same time planning is also on-going to cover gaps opened by the expulsions in live-saving assistance that 4.7 million Sudanese including 2.7 million internally displaced persons depend on, according to UN Humanitarian Coordinator John Holmes. News Story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=30127&Cr=darfur&Cr1= View the entire briefing (Real Media, 48 minutes): http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/pressbriefing/2009/brief090309.rm
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