Aid Group Pulls Out of Sudan

The struggles of humanitarian groups in Sudan continued this week as the Norwegian Refugee Council announced it was quitting the strife-torn country after repeated disruptions to its work, reports the Associated Press.

The council had to suspend operations five times for over 210 days in a little more than two years. Its 182 employees had been serving nearly 300,000 refugees in the Darfur region, which has been torn apart by a civil war. Nearly half a million people have died in the conflict.

Other international aid agencies in Sudan have been blocked trying to distribute goods and have had workers kidnapped. Such harassment has come from the Sudanese government or militias employed by the government as well as from rebel groups in the country.

Read The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s coverage of aid to Darfur here and here.

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