It Just Got Better For 130,000 Darfurians

Posted on December 20, 2006
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Isn’t this just lovely?

Dec 19, 2006 (CAIRO) — The United Nations evacuated more than 70 aid workers from the largest refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan on Tuesday after gunmen looted their compounds, leaving some 130,000 refugees virtually without humanitarian help.

It was the largest single instance of an aid worker evacuation since the U.N. launched its large-scale humanitarian campaign in war-torn Darfur in 2004. Over the past year, worsening violence has made delivering vital aid to hundreds of thousands of residents difficult or impossible.

A group of over 20 gunmen raided several humanitarian compounds in the South Darfur refugee camp of Gereida late Monday, harassing staff and stealing vehicles, communication equipment and money, the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.

… “More than 400 (workers) have been evacuated this month, the situation is getting worse and worse,” said OCHA spokeswoman Dawn Blalock on the telephone from Sudan.

A handful of aid workers chose to remain in Gereida, but the “the vast majority” left the camp, Darfur’s largest with some 130,000 refugees, she said.

The attacks were “preventing humanitarian organizations from providing life-saving assistance” to refugees, said UN humanitarian coordinator Manuel Aranda da Silva in the statement

Great! Okay so who were those damn gunmen? Were they Janjaweed, rebels or just a bunch of thieves? Meanwhile Coffee Anan is chilling and drinking Coffee somewhere doing his best to make sure “never again”.

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4 Responses to “It Just Got Better For 130,000 Darfurians”

  1. Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » The good and bad news about peace and relief efforts in Sudan, Chad, and Uganda on December 20th, 2006 4:09 pm

    […] The relief situation continues to deteriorate in Darfur, as the UN has evacuated 70 aid workers from the largest refugee camp in Darfur, “leaving some 130,000 refugees virtually without humanitarian help.” The Bill Gates Foundation has approved a $1 million grant to assist displaced families in West Darfur with sanitation and clean drinking water (assuming, I guess, that all the water sanitation people don’t get evacuated away from the displaced families). […]

  2. Andrew Brehm on December 20th, 2006 4:23 pm

    “Meanwhile Coffee Anan is chilling and drinking Coffee somewhere doing his best to make sure “never again”.”

    Kofi Annan said that what he regrets most is that Israel is still occupying her hostile neighbour (a neighbour who still refuses to adhere to her peace treaty or, even, to acknowledge that she signed one).

    The situation in Darfur and in all of Sudan concerns him less for some reason.

    I know why. Darfur is HIS failure. It was HIS responsibility to act and bring Darfur to the forefront of UN activity. But he preferred keeping the Palestine issue in the foreground. In Palestine Kofi knows Israel will be blamed (for the fact that the “Palestinians” still want to destroy her). In Sudan, the UN and Arab League would be the culprits. Can’t have that now, can we?

    If only Israel were involved in Sudan, on the government’s side. Help for the victims would come from everywhere, including lots of money from the EU.

    The only problem is that there might not be any victims then…

  3. Roman Kalik on December 21st, 2006 5:13 am

    Kofi *did* say, in the last week before he said bye-bye to his seat, that the UN Human Rights Council is overtly focused on Israel and ignores areas that are “just as deserving in attention” like Darfur, Sudan.

    The understatement of the decade, and too bad he just *said* it, probably to recover his image for retirement, without doing anything worthwhile about it.

  4. Andrew Brehm on December 21st, 2006 1:04 pm

    “just as deserving in attention”

    Priceless!

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