In Sudan, the U.N.’s top humanitarian official has once again been barred from visiting Darfur. Jan Egeland, the U.N. relief coordinator, was forced to end his trip Friday after Sudanese officials stopped him from entering villages housing Darfurian refugees. Egeland spoke after returning to the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

U.N. Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland: “Never would I have thought that on my fourth and final visit, the number of people in need of assistance would have gone from 1 to 4 million, and never would I have thought that the fear, the angst among the civilian population of Darfur, would remain the same after three long years.”