[Published: Wednesday August 11 2010]
Bashir threatens to
expel UN mission
Khartoum, 11 Aug-(ANA)-Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has
warned the United Nations mission in Darfur
and foreign aid organisations to "support government
authorities" or face expulsion.
"Any aid group or UN or African Union agency, even Unamid, their mandate
is to support government authorities," Bashir told a gathering
of Darfuri leaders in Khartoum.
Unamid, the
joint African Union and United Nations mission in Darfur, has
more than 15,000 peacekeepers deployed in the region.
"I tell
my brothers, the governors of Darfur, that
anyone who exceeds these boundaries or their mandate can be expelled the same
day," Bashir said.
Bashir's
remarks come amid an ongoing dispute between the Sudanese government and Unamid
over six people wanted by Khartoum.
The Sudanese
government accuses the six members of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), one of
the rebel groups most hostile to the Sudanese government, of starting a
clash last month in the Kalma camp.
Kalma houses
more than 100,000 people who fled their homes during years of bloody rampages
carried out by militias in western Sudan.
"The camps are Sudanese territory under Sudanese authority and there
is no authority in this world which can stop the government from ... prosecuting
criminals who break the law," Bashir said.(ANA)
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