UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly condemned recent deadly bomb attacks on a school, water installation and market in Sudan's warring Darfur region.
As of Tuesday, around 30 wounded, mostly women andchildren, were still waiting for help. None had arrived becauseauthorities were denying access and logistical problems,according to witnesses and aid sources.
The attack on Sunday in North Darfur killed 12 people. Twoaid organizations said the Sudanese government had carried outthe attack, but Khartoum did not comment.
Marie Okabe, a spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary General BanKi-moon, said Ban "strongly deplores these acts, which targetedcivilian areas, including locations where children congregate."
Ban also expressed concern about "increasing acts ofbanditry which complicate humanitarian operations and impedeUNAMID's (the U.N. mission in Darfur) ability to carry out itsmandate," Okabe said.
Ban called on rebels and the government to stop fightingand commit themselves to finding a political solution.
U.N. officials say 300,000 people may have died in fiveyears of revolt in Darfur. Another 2.5 million have been madehomeless by the violence, which Washington calls genocide.
Khartoum rejects that term and blames Western media forexaggerating the conflict in which it says only around 10,000people have died.
(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Alan Elsner)
