Study: Security, delays slow Darfur aid
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U.S. humanitarian aid to Darfur continues to be hampered by a lack of security in the region, restrictions by the Sudanese government and delays in international aid, according to a congressional report Monday.
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GENEVA -- At least 70,000 refugees have died since March because of poor conditions in camps in Sudan's Darfur region, and more will die at the same rate unless countries contribute the $300 million in aid they promised, the UN health agency said yesterday.
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ABUJA, Sept 13  - Slow-moving African Union-brokered peace talks for Sudan&#39;s Darfur region have been complicated by last week&#39;s declaration by the United States that Khartoum and allied militia are committing genocide there.
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A battalion of Rwandan peacekeeping troops scheduled to arrive in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region this weekend will be delayed by a week because of logistical problems, Rwanda said on Sunday.
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Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region   faces a humanitarian "catastrophe" without rapid action to   improve security and get aid to those in need, the head of the   U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
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A new round of peace talks for Sudan's troubled Darfur region will be delayed by two days because top rebel delegates have been unable to get to Nigeria for the negotiations, a rebel leader said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United Nations said on  Wednesday it was concerned by Sudan's lack of progress in  bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people  have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.
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The Christian Science Monitor - &#8211; Deteriorating security conditions in Darfur &#8211; a vast region of Sudan that is equal in size to France &#8211; are endangering the largest humanitarian aid operation in the world.
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PEACE talks between the Sudanese government and rebel groups from the troubled region of Darfur have stalled. The talks, brokered by the African Union, are being held in Nigeria, are deadlocked over disarmament and other security issues.
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Aid workers in  Darfur get a helping hand from advanced satellite mapping.
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Darfur, the troubled western Sudan region, was barely a speck on the international horizon in October 2003 when Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S. foreign aid agency, traveled there to learn more about the area's developing humanitarian crisis.
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Plans to deploy a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to Sudan's violence-plagued Darfur region could still be derailed by a dearth in funding and political will, the chairman of the African Union warned Sunday.
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Aid workers in the region of Darfur are getting a helping hand from advanced satellite mapping technology.
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The United Nations says it is concerned by Sudan&#39;s lack of progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.
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Conditions for 1.2 million Sudanese displaced in Darfur continue to worsen amid violent attacks, spreading disease, and heavy rains which wreak havoc with aid convoys, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations and the United States expressed concern that it could take until early next year to deploy a 4,000-strong African Union force to Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region and called for much speedier action.
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Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder U.N. efforts to respond to one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, according to a survey of mortality rates by the United Nations' World Health Organization.