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[...] Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, the World Health Organization's representative in Sudan, expressed concerns that "one of the fighting parties" -- he did not identify which one -- had seized control of the central public health laboratory in Khartoum and "kicked out all of the technicians." "That is extremely, extremely dangerous because we have polio isolates in the [BSL-x] lab. We have measles isolates in the lab. We have cholera isolates in the lab," he told a U.N. briefing in Geneva by video call from Port Sudan. "There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab in Khartoum by one of the fighting parties."
"That is extremely, extremely dangerous because we have polio isolates in the [BSL-x] lab. We have measles isolates in the lab. We have cholera isolates in the lab," he told a U.N. briefing in Geneva by video call from Port Sudan. "There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab in Khartoum by one of the fighting parties."
The expulsion of technicians and power cuts in Khartoum mean "it is not possible to properly manage the biological materials that are stored in the lab for medical purposes," WHO said. The lab is located in central Khartoum, close to flashpoints of the fighting that pits Sudan's military against the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias implicated in atrocities in the Darfur [Sudan] conflict.
The lab is located in central Khartoum, close to flashpoints of the fighting that pits Sudan's military against the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias implicated in atrocities in the Darfur [Sudan] conflict.
"Absolutely," Blinken emailed back. "I'm just about to land in Tokyo en route back DC from Burma. I'll be in office from Tuesday on. Copying Linda in my office to find a good time. Look forward to seeing you. Tony."
Color Revolution in Sudan, feat. RSF! "This is precisely the process that what Victoria Nuland's husband, Robert Kagan, describes as 'tending the jungle on behalf of the garden of democracy' in his 2019 book The Jungle Grows Back."
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