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| Two senior UN officials ordered to leave Sudan |
| 2014-12-27 |
| KHARTOUM: Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, UN sources said on Thursday, in what appeared to be an escalation of President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir’s move against UN activities in the country. The sources identified the officials as UN Resident Coordinator at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ali Al-Za’tari and Yvonne Helle, the UNDP’s country director. The reason for the expulsions was not immediately clear, but they come a month after Bashir called for peacekeepers from the joint UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to leave, calling them “a security burden.” Sudan had already shut UNAMID’s human rights office in Khartoum and called on the mission to prepare an exit plan, days after denying peacekeepers permission to pay a second visit to the site of alleged mass rapes by Sudanese soldiers in Tabit. |
| Posted by:Steve White |