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Darfur groups flouting arms embargo - new report

More than 3,000 refugees from the western Sudanese region of Darfur live in a camp near the northeastern Central African Republic town of Sam Ouandja UNICEF/CAR/2008/Pierre Holtz
    NAIROBI

    Armed groups in Sudan's Darfur region have continued to violate a UN arms embargo as well as international humanitarian and human rights law, a new report by a UN panel of experts has said.



    "All parties to the conflict continue to fail to meet their affirmative obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law in areas under their control," the report said.



    "Among the armed movements, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is the most active violator of the arms embargo, carrying out repeated attacks," it said.



    Sudan has rejected the report saying it would demand that the Security Council terminate the panel’s mandate. "We are fed up with this committee," news reports quoted its ambassador to the UN, Abdel-Mahmoud Abdel-Halim, as saying. "Our position is a total rejection of this report."



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