In Sudan, the UN’s top humanitarian official has abandoned his effort to visit the Darfur region. Jan Egeland, the UN’s Under-Secretary General For Humanitarian Affairs, says the Sudanese government is trying to hide the ethnic cleansing that is occurring in the area. UN Under-Secretary General For Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland: “Suddenly not being welcomed in South Darfur, nor in West Darfur, nor in Khartoum where they say come back in some weeks is, I think, a sign they don’t want me to see how bad it has become in Southern Darfur, where tens of thousands have had to flee from renewed attacks against vulnerable populations in villages for examples in places where I was planning to go in Gereida in Southern Darfur.”