Sudan shuts down aid groups

(New York Times): With concern mounting over the impact of Sudan’s decision to close down some 13 relief agencies in its dispute with the International Criminal Court, a United Nations panel registered new concerns on Friday that the move against aid groups represented a “grievous dereliction” of Sudan’s duty to protect its own people. The government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan ordered the closures after the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued a warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges stemming from the conflict in Darfur.

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