The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...

The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said.
"We have just learned from the Sudanese authorities that they will allow now the team to go to Khartoum and (the western region of) Darfur," said UN human rights spokesman Jose Diaz.
The five-person human rights mission had been in neighbouring Chad since April 5 interviewing Sudanese refugees who fled across the border to escape alleged ethnic cleansing by Arab militia in Darfur. Upon their return to Geneva, they were to issue a report to the United Nations' high commissioner on human rights containing "conclusions and recommendations for further action on the very serious situation in that part of the world," the spokesman said.
Rights groups had the previous week raised the alarm over the humanitarian situation in Darfur, accusing the Khartoum government of carrying out a "massive terror campaign".
Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Sudan's army forces and militias had burned villages and killed, raped and abducted hundreds of civilians and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes, "a pattern of abuses amounting to crimes against humanity."
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) issued a statement alleging: "Since the government launched a large terror campaign in the region, civilians are subjected to constant, violent and indiscriminate attacks.
"Arbitrary arrests, the widespread use of torture, abductions and extra-judicial executions of those suspected of supporting the rebels, lootings, as well as the systematic raping of women and girls are regularly reported," it charged.