A senior British aid official and former United Nations Chief in Sudan has been expelled from Chad, after attempting to visit refugees from Darfur who had been displaced to the county.

The expulsion of the official, Mukesh Kapila, was thought to have been personally ordered by Chad's Interior Minister Abderaman Moussa, and left Kapila feeling  “frustrated, deeply saddened, and then very angry”.

Speaking to the BBC, Kapila said,

"The fact that the Chadian authorities blocked me from seeing the Darfuri refugees, for which I had come to Chad, means that what I had said - warning the world of the Darfur genocide and blaming the Sudan government for it - still comes across the decade."

"I guess that they were afraid that I would draw attention to the matter again."

Over 200,000 refugees who fled from Darfur live in camps located in Easter Chad

“They are inconvenient reminders of genocidal war that took place ten years ago, but which continues to this very day and continues to generate the humanitarian suffering that we are seeing now.”

See excerpts of his interview with the BBC here.

Chad has close ties to Sudan’s government and to President Omar al-Bashir, whi is currently wanted by the International Criminal Court for charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Earlier last month, Chad was referred to the UN Security Council over its failure to arrest Bashir for a second time, whilst he visited the country.