Attacks Force 71 Aid Staff to Evacuate Darfur Town

Peter Daou - December 20, 2006 - 1:21 pm

DARFUR.jpg "Attacks on Darfur aid workers' compounds in Gereida town have forced the evacuation of 71 staff and severely restricted humanitarian aid reaching the region's largest population of war victims, officials said on Wednesday...

U.N. humanitarian coordinator Manuel Aranda Da Silva said in a statement: "How can we be expected to carry out humanitarian work without vehicles to get to camps, phones to communicate and the constant threat to their own physical safety?" More

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