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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Sudan's Darfur region heading for anarchy: UN envoy
Thomas Bird at 8:22 PM ET

[JURIST] Senior UN official Jan Pronk told the UN Security Council Thursday that unless African Union troops enter the Sudan's Darfur region soon, the entire region might fall into anarchy. Pronk, the UN envoy for Darfur, said that rebels were gaining territory and the whole region may soon see "a total collapse of law and order." Reuters has more. Read Pronk's briefing to the UN here.






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