UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said he was barred from a camp for people displaced by the violence in western Sudan on Saturday as international pressure mounted for new UN sanctions. Holmes told Reuters a military guard at the Kassab Camp in Kutum, north Darfur, had stopped him entering and the decision was supported by the guard's commander.
"I am frustrated and angry. I find this extraordinary but it illustrates the difficulties we are facing," Holmes said on his return to the regional capital El-Fasher. He said his team had received advance permission to visit the camp and had notified the Khartoum government over the incident, which ended with a guard seizing a tape from a UN cameraman as they prepared to leave.