The UN is finally threatening Darfur. If Darfur doesn’t stop interfering with the UN auditors who are there to see what happened to all the money spent on the Darfur peacekeeping force (don’t laugh, there is one), the UN is going to pull the auditors out of Sudan.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N.’s internal watchdog agency has threatened to withdraw its auditors from Sudan to protest restrictions placed on it by the U.N. envoy to the troubled African nation, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Office of Internal Oversight Services, known as OIOS, has been prevented from carrying out a thorough examination of the nearly $1 billion peacekeeping budget for the country, according to the internal e-mail memo.
The threat comes as the United Nations plans to expand its Sudan operation and take over peacekeeping duties in its conflict-wracked Darfur region, site of one of the world’s most serious humanitarian crises. It also comes in the midst of a major reform effort and greater scrutiny of U.N. peacekeeping missions with a goal of more openness and accountability.
That’ll show ’em.
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That’s the best I could do, seeing as how Meryl doesn’t allows us any smilies.
This is the organizational equivalent of a five-year-old’s pout followed by “I’m going to take my toys and go home.”
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I am a UN Staff member, there are about 50,000 of us in the world (similar to the size of Enron before its collapse). I’m trying to have a forum where the dirty ‘activities’ of the UN can be exposed to the public. Corruption is well known among the staff but they do not have a place to voice it anonymously. I have a place. Please spread the word, http://www.insidetheUN.blogsite.com