More than one million people in Darfur are at risk of losing food, water and shelter in coming months. This follows the expulsion of international aid groups by the Sudan Government., as stated by the UN co-ordinator John Homes. The statement by coordinator John Holmes comes after a joint U.N.-Sudanese assessment of the situation.

Sudan expelled 13 international organizations from the war torn region recently.

The announcement came on the same day that President Omar al-Bashir, now an indicted war criminal, ignored the threat of arrest by traveling abroad to Eritrea. Also on Tuesday, a Sudanese staffer working for a Canadian relief group was shot dead in Darfur.

The U.N. estimates that 1.5 million people in Darfur are dependent on healthcare support, 1.1 million need regular food aid, and another 1 million are in need of clean drinking water.