United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland was forced to curtail his visit to a camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur when an initially peaceful demonstration to show support for a planned deployment of a UN peacekeeping force turned rowdy. Egeland was meeting representatives from nongovernmental organisations at the Kalma camp, near the town of Nyala, when the crowd complained that a translator working for an international NGO had not correctly interpreted what they were saying. They beat the interpreter before he was put in a vehicle and driven out of the camp.