The UN is finally threatening Darfur. If Darfur doesn’t stop interfering with the UN auditors who are there to see what happened to all the money spent on the Darfur peacekeeping force (don’t laugh, there is one), the UN is going to pull the auditors out of Sudan.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N.’s internal watchdog agency has threatened to withdraw its auditors from Sudan to protest restrictions placed on it by the U.N. envoy to the troubled African nation, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services, known as OIOS, has been prevented from carrying out a thorough examination of the nearly $1 billion peacekeeping budget for the country, according to the internal e-mail memo.

The threat comes as the United Nations plans to expand its Sudan operation and take over peacekeeping duties in its conflict-wracked Darfur region, site of one of the world’s most serious humanitarian crises. It also comes in the midst of a major reform effort and greater scrutiny of U.N. peacekeeping missions with a goal of more openness and accountability.

That’ll show ‘em.