{"id":344474,"date":"2011-03-28T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/sudan-govt-refuses-to-grant-ugandan-peacekeepers-visas\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:19:45","slug":"sudan-govt-refuses-to-grant-ugandan-peacekeepers-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/sudan-govt-refuses-to-grant-ugandan-peacekeepers-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Govt Refuses to Grant Ugandan Peacekeepers Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53.408245755861\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6f169cb6ntribune180.png\" alt=\"Sudan Tribune (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Sudan Tribune (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>28 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Sudanese government has refused to give Ugandan peacekeepers their visas to serve in the war-ravaged region of Darfur as part of UNAMID force, Kampala-based newspaper said in its Monday edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019The Monitor\u2019 said that Uganda has been seeking to rotate 108 police officers serving in Darfur but due to the visa issue asked for the United Nations\u2019s permission to extend the tenure of the existing peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>The Ugandan Ministry of Internal Affairs Permanent Secretary, Stephen Kagoda, reportedly said in his letter that the extension was necessary to avoid a &#8220;replacement vacuum&#8221; since the current Ugandan contingent\u2019s tour of duty was due to expire on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, in a February 21 diplomatic note, Sudan\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry informed UNAMID that requests for visas for new police peacekeepers &#8220;are NOT approved&#8221;, because &#8220;efforts should be directed towards increasing Arabic-speaking police as agreed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations Ann-Marie Orler, wrote back to UNAMID Police Commissioner James Oppong-Boanuh on March 15, authorizing that services of the Ugandan group be extended by four months up to July 25, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>However, other Ugandan officials gave conflicting statements saying that the contingent serving in Darfur will be replaced as planned and that securing the visas is the responsibility of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>If the report is true it would reflect the strained relations between the two countries since last year particularly as Kampala publicly supported South Sudan independence which materialized in the referendum that took place last January. It will become official in July.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda is now also hosting two Darfur rebel leaders including Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Minni Minnawi who leads a faction of the same movement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103281318.html\" title=\"Sudan: Govt Refuses to Grant Ugandan Peacekeepers Visas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sudan: Govt Refuses to Grant Ugandan Peacekeepers Visas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 March 2011 The Sudanese government has refused to give Ugandan peacekeepers their visas to serve in the war-ravaged region of Darfur as part of UNAMID force, Kampala-based newspaper said in its Monday edition. \u2019The Monitor\u2019 said that Uganda has been seeking to rotate 108 police officers serving in Darfur but due to the visa issue asked for the United Nations\u2019s permission to extend the tenure of the existing peacekeepers. The Ugandan Ministry of Internal Affairs Permanent Secretary, Stephen Kagoda, reportedly said in his letter that the extension was necessary to avoid a &#8220;replacement vacuum&#8221; since the current Ugandan contingent\u2019s tour of duty was due to expire on March 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sudan: Govt Refuses to Grant Ugandan Peacekeepers Visas - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/sudan-govt-refuses-to-grant-ugandan-peacekeepers-visas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sudan: Govt Refuses to Grant Ugandan Peacekeepers Visas - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"28 March 2011 The Sudanese government has refused to give Ugandan peacekeepers their visas to serve in the war-ravaged region of Darfur as part of UNAMID force, Kampala-based newspaper said in its Monday edition. \u2019The Monitor\u2019 said that Uganda has been seeking to rotate 108 police officers serving in Darfur but due to the visa issue asked for the United Nations\u2019s permission to extend the tenure of the existing peacekeepers. 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