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| July 8, 2008 |
Wael al-Haj-Ibrahim headed the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the town of Nyala, which was in charge of aid for up to 1 million displaced people in the war-ravaged state, officials said.
"The United Nations is extremely concerned about the ramifications of this decision," said U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe.
Okabe said the expulsion violated agreements signed between the United Nations and the Sudanese government to facilitate aid in Darfur.
The Aegis Trust, a British-based group that campaigns against genocide, said al-Haj-Ibrahim had been forced out for "resisting a policy that amounts to further ethnic cleansing" of Darfur's African population.
"With no security to allow them to return home and rebuild, forced removal of the (displaced people) from the camps gives their inhabitants no choice but to leave the region or die," said Aegis chief executive James Smith.
Both U.N. aid officials and independent charities working in Darfur have complained of bureaucratic harassment by Sudanese authorities.