Sudan Announces "decisive" Resolutions On Darfur To "Western" Support Groups
June 13, 2011 (Khartoum) - The Sudanese authorities have evaluated the performance of agencies "Western" assistance in war-torn region of Darfur in the country to "critical decisions" in the coming days, an official said Monday.
In a report by the Center for Sudanese media (SMC), a site considered as being operated by the country's security and intelligence, the director of the department of organizations in the Sudanese Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs (HAC), Ali Adam Hassan said the authorities had received "a report on the performance of Western humanitarian organizations" in the western region of Darfur.
CDT is mandated to regulate the work of local aid groups and foreign countries. However, its mandate does not include agencies of the United Nations.
According to the head, the report focuses on Western groups to reflect "the majority of their weaknesses and mistakes of his performance."
Hassan then determined that the report tried to assess five aspects of support groups of operations, including partnerships with national institutions, the budgetary and financial resources, the projects adopted by these organizations and to what extent these projects coincide with humanitarian aid strategy for peace in Darfur.
In light of this report, the official said, "final and binding decisions" will be released in the coming days to reform groups and the performance objectives of aid in Darfur.
Sudan has more than once to expel Western aid organizations allegations of their involvement in espionage activities. In particular, in March 2008, when dozens of foreign aid agencies in Darfur have been expelled as a result of the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of war crimes , crimes against humanity committed in the region.
Later, in 2010 the ICC issued another arrest warrant, al-Bashir is responsible for the genocide.
Darfur has been the scene of a humanitarian emergency, when fighting erupted in 2003 between the government and the rebels accusing it of marginalizing the region.
A tough anti-insurgency campaign orchestrated by Khartoum and its allied Arab militias in the region is responsible for the death and displacement of thousands of people.
The UN estimates that 300,000 people have died and 2.7 lost their homes since the conflict started. Government claims that the death toll is about 10,000.
