KHARTOUM, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Sudan ordered on Tuesday the country head of British charity Oxfam to leave "as soon as possible" for violating visa regulations, a week after threatening to expel him in a separate dispute.
Humanitarian Assistance Minister Ibrahim Mahmud Hamid said Oxfam director Shaun Skelton had a visa only for Darfur but was working in Khartoum and so had to leave the country.
"They (country directors) have specific immigration requirements, which the head of Oxfam has failed in," the under-secretary for humanitarian affairs Abdel Rahman Abu Doam told a news conference.
"The fast-track visa is for entry to Darfur, to undertake work in Darfur. It does not allow you to work in Khartoum, especially for the head of an organisation," he said.
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