Sudan warns expelled aid groups against attempting to re-enter
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June 25, 2013, (JUBA) - The Sudanese ruling National Congress Party
(NCP) has warned foreign aid groups that were expelled from the
country against attempting to enter areas in the Blue Nile and South
Kordofan states without Khartoum’s permission.
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Refugees from Blue Nile receive food during a food aid distribution at
the Yusuf Batil Refugee camp, in Upper Nile State, South Sudan on June
23, 2012 (Getty)
The NCP’s secretary of organizations, Adil Awad Salman said in press
statements on Tuesday that some organizations which had previously
worked in Sudan and were booted out due to violating government’s
policies are currently trying to sneak into the two states which are
the scene of fighting between the army and rebels.
He claimed that these groups are seeking entrance through political
bodies and people with connections to rebels in order to collect
information on the humanitarian situation in Sudan and fabricate
reports with the help of world powers and organizations such as
Amnesty International and Transparency International.
Salman added that those reports will be used to place more pressure on
Sudan and its foreign policy and said that they will not tolerate
violating Sudan’s political and legal sovereignty, describing it as
“red line”.
The NCP official revealed a new strategy for civil society
organizations that is in line with the government’s policies regarding
human rights work in Sudan and underscores permanently banning any
groups which support rebels from entering the country.
Immediately after the first arrest warrant of the International
Criminal Court (ICC) against Sudan’s president Omer Al-Bashir in March
2009, Sudan expelled 13 aid groups from Darfur accusing it of
collaborating with the war crime courts.
Since then, the activities of foreign aid group in Darfur are strictly
controlled and more organizations were evicted through the years.
Sudan refuses to allow new aid groups to work in the region.
The government also banned the access of foreign groups to the
rebel-held areas in South Kordofan and Blue Nile as well as the
establishment of camps for the displaced civilians, stressing the
experience of Darfur camps should not be repeated in the two states.
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