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06-11-2015, 10:53 AM
United Nations News Centre - Ongoing violence in Darfur having ?devastating? impact on civilians, Security Council told (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51114#.VXlnafntlBc)
10 June 2015 – The security situation in Darfur is a very serious one, marked by a “deeply concerning” increase in violent attacks by armed assailants against United Nations peacekeepers and humanitarian personnel, the Assistant
Secretary-General for UN peacekeeping operations told the Security Council today.
“Most worrisome is the devastating impact that [it] has had on innocent civilians and the obstacles it has created for their protection and for humanitarian assistance,” Edmond Mulet stated this morning, reporting to the Council “very
limited progress” in the peace process.
Indeed, he stressed, the second phase of the Government’s military offensive, ‘Operation Decisive Summer,’ has resulted in high numbers of newly displaced people. At least 78,000 people have been displaced by conflict in Darfur this
year, according to humanitarian organizations. In addition, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) received reports of some 130,000 additional internal displaced persons (IDPs), which it was not yet able to verify.
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10 June 2015 – The security situation in Darfur is a very serious one, marked by a “deeply concerning” increase in violent attacks by armed assailants against United Nations peacekeepers and humanitarian personnel, the Assistant
Secretary-General for UN peacekeeping operations told the Security Council today.
“Most worrisome is the devastating impact that [it] has had on innocent civilians and the obstacles it has created for their protection and for humanitarian assistance,” Edmond Mulet stated this morning, reporting to the Council “very
limited progress” in the peace process.
Indeed, he stressed, the second phase of the Government’s military offensive, ‘Operation Decisive Summer,’ has resulted in high numbers of newly displaced people. At least 78,000 people have been displaced by conflict in Darfur this
year, according to humanitarian organizations. In addition, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) received reports of some 130,000 additional internal displaced persons (IDPs), which it was not yet able to verify.
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