By Howard Lesser

With foreign humanitarian aid groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) poised to depart under an expulsion order issued by Mr. Bashir last week, the vice president for policy at Refugees International, Joel Charny, observes that Khartoum can only be convinced to modify its order if it comes to realize that more is at stake than just bargaining over the terms of President Bashir's arrest warrant.  He says that he hopes Sudan will recognize that it also faces a catastrophic disappearance of medical services, sanitation, and basic food and shelter for more than a million of its citizens.

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