A joint mission by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is heading to Darfur, Sudan, on Aug. 10 to provide emergency humanitarian relief at a cost of $1 million, Arab News reported today. According to sources, the president of the IDB, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Ali, met with OIC Assistant Secretary-General for International and Humanitarian Affairs, Ambassador Atta El-Manan Bakhit, and the ambassador of Sudan in Saudi Arabia at the OIC General Secretariat headquarters to discuss the goals of the mission. During its ten-day visit to Sudan, the mission will travel to Khartoum first and then to Darfur to provide needed medicine, food and other items for the refugees and people of Darfur. While in Khartoum, the mission will discuss with Sudanese authorities organizing an OIC international donors' conference in aid of Darfur. --MORE