Sudan gives UN envoy three days to leave

The Sudanese government today gave the chief UN envoy three days to leave the country, the country’s official news agency reported.

The Sudanese government today ordered the chief UN envoy to leave the country within three days after he wrote that the Sudanese army had suffered serious losses in fighting with rebels in northern Darfur.

The official Sudan News Agency said the order was issued against the envoy, Jan Pronk of the Netherlands, because he had demonstrated “enmity to the Sudanese government and the armed forces” and was involved in unspecified activities “that are incompatible with his mission”.