Violence in Darfur region is jeopardising world's largest aid operation

doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7563.319-a

BMJ 2006;333:319 (12 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7563.319-a

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Violence in Darfur region is jeopardising world's largest aid operation

Peter Moszynski

London

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Humanitarian operations in Darfur are threatened by an upsurgeof violence against relief personnel, the United Nations haswarned.

One of the camps for displaced citizens, in Zalingei, where aid staff were beaten to death

Credit: PEP BONET/PANOS

"During the second half of July we lost more aid workers thanover the previous two years," said Mike McDonagh, humanitarianaffairs officer at the UN Office for the Coordination of HumanitarianAffairs in Khartoum.

The main reasons for violence against humanitarian workers aretension and rumours among the local population. "We are nowin the third—and for some the fourth—rainy season,and the displaced people are still living in camps," Mr McDonaghsaid. "There is enormous frustration and a lack of hope amongmany of them."

The UN office in Khartoum says that insecurity has risen sincethe fragmentation of various rebel groups after the signingof the 5 May peace . . . [Full text of this article]

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