Page 9 - AT

A9
WORLD NEWS Wednesday 28 august 2019

Sudan urges UN to withdraw all peacekeepers by June 2020

By EDITH M. LEDERER populations — a charge it
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Su- denies. In recent years, as
dan urged the U.N. Secu- the result of a successful
rity Council on Monday to government military cam-
lift its suspension of troop paign, the rebellion has
withdrawals and ensure all been reduced to a rebel
peacekeepers leave Dar- Sudan Liberation Army fac-
fur by June 2020, but the tion headed by Abdul Wa-
African Union said overall hid Elnur in Jebel Marra.
security in the vast western In July 2018, the Security
region "remains volatile." Council voted to dramati-
Sudan's U.N. Ambassador cally cut the UNAMID force
Omer Mohamed Siddig in response to reduced
told the council it's time to fighting and improved se-
shift from peacekeeping curity conditions. The tar-
to peacebuilding in Darfur, get for ending the mission is
and to end restrictions on June 30, 2020.
the government's move- Smail Chergui, the AU com-
ment of arms and troops in missioner for peace and
and out of the region. security, told the council
In late June, the Security that Darfur still faces "inter-
Council voted unanimously mittent armed clashes" be-
to put the brakes on the Members of the United Nations Security Council discuss situations in Sudan and South Sudan tween government forces
during a meeting Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, at U.N. headquarters as Under-Secretary-General for
withdrawal of the joint U.N.- Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix is seen on a screen. and Elnur's rebels, who also
African Union peacekeep- Associated Press have abducted civilians
ing force from Darfur as and staff of nongovern-
the country dealt with a U.N. and AU to make rec- The Darfur conflict began in tion. The government in mental organizations for
political crisis. It extended ommendations by Sept. 30 2003 when ethnic Africans Khartoum was accused of ransom, robbed commer-
the mandate of the force, on what the council should rebelled, accusing the Ar- retaliating by arming local cial trucks and looted prop-
known as UNAMID, until do about continuing the ab-dominated Sudanese nomadic Arab tribes and erty of local media and hu-
Oct. 31, and it asked the withdrawal. government of discrimina- unleashing them on civilian manitarian organizations.q

Passenger at Munich airport held after bypassing security

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities passenger, Munich Airport Munich airport is one of
at Munich airport detained spokesman Robert Wilhelm Germany's busiest aviation
a passenger who left a said. hubs and the shutdown
terminal via an emergen- Terminal 1 and parts of Ter- came during peak summer
cy exit instead of going minal 2 were closed during travel season. The passen-
through passport control, the police operation. They ger was identified by po-
prompting a temporary were re-opened a few lice as a Spanish man, be-
partial shutdown of one of hours later. tween 20 and 25, who had
Germany's busiest airports Some 190 incoming and flown in from Bangkok and
Tuesday. outgoing flights were can- was to catch a connect-
Police said the incident celed, German news ing flight to Madrid. Before
had been a mistake and agency dpa reported. boarding the connecting
the man is unlikely to face Affected passengers, who flight the passenger had
any consequences. had already been through to go through security con-
Up to 5,000 passengers security checks for their de- trols, but instead opened
were affected by the dis- parting flights, had to go an emergency door and People wait inside the Munich Airport in Munich, Germany,
ruption as federal police through the process again, left through it despite set- Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019.
searched for the unnamed Wilhelm said. ting off an alarm.q Associated Press