Earlier today we reported that an entire refugee camp in Sudan had vanished overnight—3,000 to 4,000 people—right under Kofi Annan’s nose.

UN officials were stunned.

Tonight comes the news that Kofi Annan is praising the Sudanese government for “disarming” the Arab militias—even though right now it’s only a “commitment:” UN Says Sudan Undertakes to Disarm Darfur Militias.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had undertaken to disarm Arab militias who have driven more than one million Africans from their homes in the remote Darfur region.

“(Al-Bashir has made a commitment) to ensure security for the civilian population by deploying civilian police and by disarming militias,” Annan after talks in Khartoum, highlighting what the U.N. says is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

And meanwhile, no update on the news wires about the fate of those 3,000 to 4,000 people.

Who vanished.

Overnight.