UN humanitarian chief visits Sudan next Wednesday
November 25, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator, John Holmes, will visit next week Sudan’s troubled region of Darfur to inspect the humanitarian situation threr.
Sadiq said the UN official will meet humanitarian relief workers and will also meet with UN OCHA of officials in Sudan as well as representatives of Non- governmental Organizations in the country.
Holmes will embark on a week-long tour of Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya next week for talks with government and UN officials as well as representatives of other aid agencies, his office said Friday.
The OCHA chief is to wrap up his African tour in Nairobi, Kenya, before heading back to UN headquarters on December 3.
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