Sudan: Senior UN Officials Expelled From Sudan

26 December 2014

The Sudanese government has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave the country. It comes amid a dispute between Khartoum and the UN's peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

Two officials from the United Nations Development Programme (UNPD) were asked by the Sudanese government to leave, the UN said in a statement on Thursday. They were named as Jordanian Ali Al-Za'tari, the UN resident coordinator at the UNPD, and Dutch national Yvonne Helle, the UNPD's country director.

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