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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: US embassy says non-vital staff may leave Sudan AFP - Wednesday, March 11 KHARTOUM, March 10, 2009 (AFP) - - The US embassy in Khartoum said on Tuesday it is allowing non-essential staff to leave Sudan as troops beefed up security outside the French embassy following reported threats by Islamist militants. ADVERTISEMENT The move comes after Sudan ordered the expulsion of a number of aid agencies following the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision last week to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Beshir. "The Department of State has authorised the departure of non-emergency personnel and family members at the US embassy in Khartoum until further notice," an embassy statement said. Americans were advised to defer all travel to Sudan "due to uncertain security conditions following the expulsion of NGOs as well as harassment of humanitarian aid workers, employees of non-governmental organisations, and Westerners in general." The US mission said it has introduced "heightened security measures" to protect its personnel. It said the US government has information about "terrorist threats" aimed at American and European interests, noting that recent demonstrations have featured anti-Western rhetoric. Two US embassy employees were killed on January 1, 2008 while driving in Khartoum. Meanwhile, Sudanese army jeeps blocked roads leading to the French embassy in Khartoum and troops secured a perimeter around it after a Sudanese newspaper reported that militant groups had vowed suicide attacks against French, as well as British and US interests. The Coalition of Jihad and Martyrdom Movements "announces it will execute 250 jihadi martyrdom operations against the countries supporting the ICC's decisions in their territories," the Akher Lahza newspaper quoted a statement as saying. AFP was not able to confirm the report. On Monday, the United Nations had made a fresh appeal to Khartoum to reverse its decision to expel 13 aid groups from Darfur after Beshir was indicted for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the six-year conflict there. Beshir, who has ruled since carrying out a 1989 coup, is accused of orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture, forcible displacement, rape and pillage in Darfur, a region in western Sudan the size of France. But the UN plea was swiftly rejected by Sudan. The official who issued the rejection was State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun, who has himself faced an ICC arrest warrant since 2007 for alleged Darfur war crimes. "The UN is not in a position to order or advise Sudan," Haroun said. "They should just deal with the situation on the ground." He said a joint UN-Sudanese team would leave for Darfur on Wednesday to conduct a week-long mission to carry out a "real assessment on the ground." A UN official said on Tuesday the world body planned to participate in three joint missions to Darfur. Sudan has accused the expelled relief agencies of collaborating with the ICC, and the US embassy said senior government officials have publicly called humanitarian workers "spies" and seized the assets of many of the groups. On Monday, four soldiers from the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur were wounded in an ambush by unknown attackers near El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, near the Chad border. "They opened fire without warning. It could have been fatal," force spokesman Kemal Saiki told AFP. The joint deployment is set to be the world's largest peacekeeping mission. However, the force is at only 60 percent of mandated strength, with 15,000 of the 26,000 planned troops and police on the ground. According to the United Nations, 300,000 people have died and more than 2.2 million fled their homes since ethnic minority rebels rose up against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government in February 2003. Sudan puts the death toll at only 10,000. The most active Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, said on Tuesday it would pursue peace talks with the government despite the warrant for Beshir. "The movement is committed to continuing the peace process which was launched in Doha," said the JEM representative in the Qatari capital Doha, Abubakr al-Kadi. Beshir has said he will attend an Arab League meeting in Qatar at the end of the month. Also on Tuesday, ICC chief Philippe Kirsch said the UN Security Council may be asked to intervene if member nations do not arrest Beshir when he is on their soil. "If states do not cooperate, there are provisions saying that the court will then have resort ... to the Security Council," the outgoing ICC president told journalists on his last day in office. 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