Western pressure fails to move Sudan

Khartoum, expells UN envoy Jan Pronk because of comments made by Mr Pronk on his blog, janpronk.nl. A “somewhat bemused” Mr Pronk has been recalled to New York for talks with Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, and will not return to Sudan.

The decision to order Mr Pronk out of the country raises the stakes sharply in the long-running dispute with the world body over the crisis in the vast western province, where an estimated 200,000 have died and more than two million have been driven from their homes in 3½ years of government-supported mayhem.