The EU has said it was withdrawing its election observers from Sudan's Darfur region, saying safety fears were hindering their work.
Sudan is days away from what should be its first multi-party presidential, legislative and gubernatorial elections in 24 years, but opposition parties have said the polls in Darfur will be a farce while a seven-year conflict continues in the region.
'I have decided to come back with all the team. The six observers who are...in Darfur,' Veronique De Keyser, who heads the EU's election mission in Sudan, told reporters after flying into el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
