A recent article in the New York Times quoted one senior humanitarian aid official as saying: The situation for humanitarian workers and the United Nations has never been as bad as it is now. The space for us to work is just getting smaller and smaller. Not surprisingly. the Sudanese Government. which is supporting the groups that conduct this campaign of death and destruction. continues to hinder any attempts by the international community to assess the situation and provide aid to the millions of refugees. Just this month. the Sudanese Government denied entry into the country to Mr. Jan Egeland. a top U.N. official on humanitarian Issues. Last week. Sudan refused to grant visas to officials who intended to conduct a U.N. military assessment on planning a peacekeeping operation in Darfur. So in a region the size of Texas. 7.000 African Union troops have been put in place to protect the people of Darfur. While I believe the African Union force is better than nothing. their troop numbers are clearly too small.
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