Sudan: US clashes with UN over crisis

The UN envoy to Sudan urged the government to accept an international monitoring force with more than 3,000 troops to help prevent escalating militia attacks in the violence-wracked Darfur region.

Jan Pronk said yesterday that “the situation in Sudan is critical” and the government “has to be blamed” for failing to stop militia attacks outside designated areas where thousands of Sudanese fleeing the violence have gathered.