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Attack on ICR | |
2006-12-09 | |
A number of aid agencies evacuated their staff from a town in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday after unidentified gunmen attacked a house used by the International Committee of the Red Goal, an Irish NGO, also evacuated its seven-member team from Kutum after the attack, said Mark Blackett, the agency's Country Director. They would arrived in Khartoum on Saturday or Sunday, he said. He said motive behind the attack on the ICR
Khartoum denies supporting the Janjaweed. Noureddine Mezni, the African Union spokesman in Sudan, said on Friday the situation in El Fasher has stabilised. "Business activities have returned to normal and the security situation according to our field reports was calm," he told Reuters. The violence has forced the United Nations to fly 134 of its own and other aid agencies' staff out of the town. | |
Posted by:Seafarious |
#2 I'd let Magen David Adom take over. They actually care! Oh, wait.... |
Posted by: Eric Jablow 2006-12-09 16:27 |
#1 A number of aid agencies evacuated their staff from a town in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday after unidentified gunmen attacked a house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross Are you reading this, Ehud? |
Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-09 02:02 |