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Sudan orders senior UN officials to leave

Khartoum: Sudan has ordered two senior United Nations officials to leave, a UN spokesman said Thursday, after a recent spike in tensions between Khartoum and the peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

UN resident coordinator and humanitarian coordinator Ali Zaatari and the UN Development Programme country director Yvonne Helle have been asked to leave, said a UN staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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