The UN special envoy to Sudan is in session at the Security Council. Prior to the meeting he said,
So far, Mr. Pronk said, Sudan has shown progress in improving access for humanitarian workers, but no improvement in security for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) who remain fearful of further attacks by the Janjaweed if they return to their home villages.
By contrast the Sudanese foreign minister yesterday accused Human Rights Watch of druming up this trouble, reported on Arabic News:
The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael yesterday accused the "Human Rights Watch" organization of pushing the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Sudan, and he said that it is not new that these organizations will work to raise doubts.Ismael was talking in a press conference commenting on a report published by the organization on Monday in which the organization accused Sudanese governmental officials of being directly involved in recruiting and arming the Jangaweid militias which it said implants horror in the hearts of the black population in Darfur.
The Sudanese minister described Human Rights Watch as " lying one hundred percent." The Sudanese media center said yesterday that some 14 persons were killed in confrontation between the militias and a Bedouin tribe in southern Darfur.
Hmmmm.
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