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UNCEF concerned about situation in Sudan

March 2009: UNICEF and several other UN agencies have expressed deep concern about the Sudanese Governments recent suspension of the activities of 16 non-governmental aid organizations.

The suspensions are slowing down and in some cases halting vital humanitarian operations in Darfur and elsewhere in the country.

If the life-saving assistance these agencies were providing is not restored shortly, it will have immediate, lasting and profound impacts on the well-being of millions of Sudanese citizens. It is not possible, in any reasonable time frame, to replace the capacity and expertise these agencies have provided over an extended period of time, the UN agencies said in a joint statement.

These programmes cannot stop, said UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Louis-Georges Arsenault. Its a humanitarian crisis which will expand by leading to certain death for children and women if we are not able to sustain these operations.