As Darfur Fighting Diminishes, U.N. Officials Focus on the South of Sudan - The New York Times
Date:
Aug 27, 2009 Author:
Neil MacFarquhar
UNITED NATIONS — As the fighting in Darfur diminishes after years of conflict, senior United Nations officials say they are focused increasingly on the deteriorating situation in another part of Sudan: the south.
The shift in alarm has been building for months, but was reinforced late Wednesday when Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, the departing commander of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, told reporters that the war in Darfur was essentially over.
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