Aid Agency Might Shut Darfur Programme
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) fears it will have to shut its West Darfur food programme at the end of this month unless Khartoum lifts a ban on its operations, depriving about 400 000 people of food rations.
CRS country director, Darren Hercyk, points out that the organisation had always felt that it was going to resume operations in the area, adding that, "It's at the point where if we're not going to be able to do that, we're going to have to shut the programme."
Sudan suspended the CRS’s activities and accused the organisation of distributing Bibles in the Muslim region, in the latest in a series of restrictions on foreign aid groups operating in conflict-ridden Darfur.
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CRS country director, Darren Hercyk, points out that the organisation had always felt that it was going to resume operations in the area, adding that, "It's at the point where if we're not going to be able to do that, we're going to have to shut the programme."
Sudan suspended the CRS’s activities and accused the organisation of distributing Bibles in the Muslim region, in the latest in a series of restrictions on foreign aid groups operating in conflict-ridden Darfur.
To read the article titled, “Aid agency may be forced to shut Darfur programme,” click here.
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