Khartoum, Sudan
Sudan kicked a U.N. special representative out of the country this week, saying his comments on the Darfur war endangered Sudan’s security. Jan Pronk, a Dutch national who has been the U.N.’s envoy in Sudan since 2004, recently said on his Web site that Sudanese army morale was low after two major losses to the Darfur rebels in the west. Not everyone in the Sudanese government was happy with Pronk’s expulsion. The former rebels from the south, who joined the government last year in a deal that ended a separate civil war, said they had not been consulted. They said Pronk had been instrumental in ending their war and could have done the same for the Darfur war. In Darfur, Arab militias backed by Khartoum have driven 2 million blacks from their homes in a campaign the U.S. calls genocide.
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