2007年VOA标准英语-Darfur Rebel Leader Welcomed in Kenya For Medic

By Arjun Kohli
Nairobi
17 August 2007

The Kenyan government has welcomed a rebel leader from Darfur. The rebel, Suleiman Jamous, was given permission to leave Sudan to travel to Kenya for medical treatment. Arjun Kohli has more on the story from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi.

Sudan allowed Suleiman Jamous to leave on the condition that United Nations guarantees that he does not return to Darfur to fight. Jamous has spent more than a year at a U.N. hospital in Sudan because he feared arrest if he left.

The ailing¹ rebel needs medical treatment - a stomach-biopsy - that cannot be performed at the U.N. hospital.

A spokesman for the Kenyan government, Alfred Mutua, tells VOA Kenya has better medical facilities than other countries in the region and does not turn people away.

"It is important to note that we have very senior government officials from Southern Sudan and Sudan who have received medical treatment in Kenya," said Mutua. "Here in the region we are one of the main places where people get sent for medical treatment and special operations and conditions."

The elderly rebel leader is widely popular in Darfur, and is considered a critical link between rebel groups and aid organizations trying to assist the people of Darfur. Before his confinement² in the U.N. hospital, he served as a humanitarian³ coordinator⁴ for the Sudan Liberation Army.

There has been a widespread international campaign for his release, including statements from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams.

The United Nations moved Jamous into the hospital last year without the permission of the Sudanese government. Sudan has called him a criminal and had previously⁵ threatened to arrest him if he left the hospital.

1 ailing   

v.生病

参考例句：

• They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
• She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。

2 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。

3 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

4 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

5 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。