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Article: The leopard-skin shoe dictator who holds the key to Darfur Sudan's President gives no ground to EU over stricken province where 300,000 have died
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2006
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He is a military hardman, an enemy of the White House and the man
who holds the key to solving the humanitarian disaster in Darfur. But
as visitors to his presidential residence discovered last week, Omar
al-Bashir also wears leopard-skin shoes.
Sudan's President is at the centre of a diplomatic standoff over
the Darfur crisis as he refuses to admit a United Nations
peacekeeping force to the northern Sudanese province, where about
300,000 people have died and another 2.5 million have been driven
from their homes. On Friday a letter from Sudan's government
described such an idea as a "hostile act" and a "prelude to
invasion", prompting Washington to call for emergency consultations
at the ...