Daily Update: UN Humanitarian Coordinator Expelled from Darfur

In diplomacy - According to the UN News Center, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Wael al-Haj-Ibrahim, the head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, was expelled from South Darfur under a directive from the State Governor, who accused al-Haj-Ibrahim of unspecified rule violations.

Speaking in Washington, D.C., the leader of the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Salva Kiir, said that the SPLM will continue to boycott Sudan’s national unity government until all of its demands are met (from AllAfrica).

Three Spanish air crew and a Belgian pilot involved with the French charity Zoe’s Ark were freed Friday on the orders of Chadian prosecutors in the “kidnap” case of children in Chad whom Zoe’s Ark claimed to be Darfur refugees (from AFP).