Humanitarian Medical Operations halts in Sudan

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Medecins Sans Frontieres will partially halt humanitarian operations in Sudan due to obstruction by the authorities, the medical charity said on Thursday.doctor

MSF said its Brussels-based section was pulling out of the Blue Nile, East Darfur and South Darfur states where it was being “systematically denied access” to hundreds of thousands of displaced people through closures of activities, administrative obstacles and blockages.

Other MSF sections will continue to work in the north-eastern African country, where ethnically based rebellions against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum have displaced millions of people.

“The Sudanese government’s approach to international humanitarian presence in the conflict areas was starkly revealed last week, when a Sudanese air force fighter jet targeted and bombed a hospital run by our MSF colleagues in South Kordofan state,” said Bart Janssens, operations director for MSF in Brussels.

GNA

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