The Sudanese authorities Monday re-opened the Kalma camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Darfur to humanitarian workers – a day after the senior United Nations envoy to the country had called for access to the area.
Officials working with Jan Pronk, the Secretary-Generals Special Representative for Sudan, also reported Monday that an IDP staff member of CARE-International, a non-governmental organization (NGO) operating in troubled Darfur, was released on Saturday after being previously detained by Sudanese authorities.
The Kalma camp, which is home to thousands of IDPs escaping attacks by Janjaweed militias, has been re-opened after humanitarian workers had been barred from visiting it for three days.
Mr. Pronk met Sudanese Vice-President Ali Osman Taha this morning to discuss the situation in Darfur, which has been widely described as the worlds worst current humanitarian crisis.
About 1,2 million people are internally displaced and another 200.000 are refugees in neighbouring Chad are refugees because of the Janjaweed attacks and the fighting between Sudanese Government forces and two Darfur rebel groups.
Mr. Pronk and Mr. Taha also discussed developments in southern Sudan, where peace talks are taking place between Khartoum and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) in a bid to end a separate 21-year civil war in that part of the country.
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