UN General's Darfur War Comment Worries Anti-Genocide Groups - Bloomberg

Date: 
Aug 28, 2009
Author: 
Janine Zacharia

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Anti-genocide groups, already anxious the Obama administration may soften its approach to Sudan, say an assessment by a United Nations commander that the war in the country’s Darfur region has ended may undercut their efforts to maintain focus on violence there.

General Martin Luther Agwai, the departing Nigerian commander of a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, said Aug. 26 “as of today, I would not say there is a war going on in Darfur,” according to a transcript of his remarks reported by Agence France-Presse.

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