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March 31, 2009

Obama Urges Sudan to Allow Aid Groups' Return

President Obama on Monday reiterated his call for Sudan to let expelled humanitarian agencies back into the country and suggested he would “find some mechanism” to get aid to Darfur if it did not, The New York Times reports.

Officials in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum expelled 13 aid groups this month, saying they were helping the International Criminal Court prosecute President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on war-crimes charges. The move exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in the strife-torn Darfur region.

Mr. Obama did not specify what Washington might do, but activists who met with the president at the White House raised the possibility of sanctions or the establishment of “humanitarian corridors” for supplies of food, water, and medicine.

Read The Chronicle’s article for background about the situation facing charities that were ousted from Sudan.

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