FASHER, Sudan, Aug 24, SPA -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited Sudan's Darfur region, according to a report circulated today by the Associated Press. Straw, who was received Tuesday by North Darfur Gov. Osman Youssif Kabir at Al-Fasher airport, was planning to visit the nearby Abu Shouk refugee camp, a sprawling camp set in desert and scrubland about 2 kilometers (just over a mile) from the provincial northern capital of al-Fasher. Straw, who met with Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail late Monday in Khartoum, the capital, said aid agencies were reporting "considerable improvement in humanitarian access" to Darfur, a western region the size of France that is dotted with 147 refugee camps.
