Tension Runs High in Sudan

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan’s special envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, wrote a critical briefing on the issues in Sudan addressed to the UN Security Council. Pronk reported that international peace protection forces were not sent to the region in the proper sense, negotiations among the parties were not accelerated, and control in Darfur will probably be transferred to war leaders if political leaders don’t hold them accountable for their activities.