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Canada last week condemned the recent upsurge of conflict in Sudan. “The recent escalation of fighting by both parties as well as the bombing by government forces of humanitarian aid operations will only kill and displace more innocent Sudanese civilians,” Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said in a statement. “The hindering of aid is in direct violation of international humanitarian law and the deliberate bombing of aid operations is even more offensive considering Sudan approved these aid agencies working in country,” the country’s International Cooperation Minister Maria Minna added. Both ministers noted with concern that the UN-led relief flights in southern Sudan had been temporarily suspended after government forces dropped 18 bombs on 7 August, near a base run by OLS in Mapel town, in Bahr el-Ghazal province. The Norwegian government also expressed “serious concern” over the humanitarian situation in the country.
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