WHO: Darfur Humanitarian Crisis Seems to Have Eased
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A humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, once called the world's worst, appears to have eased, with the death toll from disease dropping, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.
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About 70,000 displaced people are thought to have died in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region since March, mainly from disease and malnutrition, a UN official says.
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TRIPOLI, Oct 17  -- Leaders from Sudan and four regional states held talks on the Darfur crisis, but rebel groups left on the sidelines feared Khartoum was seeking only to ease international pressure.
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Leadership deflects pressure aimed at ending Darfur 'genocide.' Talks will resume this month.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government has made "serious progress" in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a UN team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.
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The Sudanese government has made progress in meeting UN demands to end the Darfur crisis, Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday during a trip to the Abu Shouk refugee camp in northern Darfur.
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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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NAIROBI, Nov 18  -- The deteriorating situation in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region received secondary attention during a meeting Thursday of the United Nations Security Council in Nairobi as emphasis focused on the search for peace in southern Sudan.
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PARIS, Jun 27 (IPS) - This week's summit in Paris on the crisis in  Sudan's Darfur region broke up with few concrete steps  towards a rapid solution, analysts say.
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The conflict in Darfur has spread to two neighboring countries and is now in "free fall" with six million people facing the prospect of going without food or protection, the outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday.
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While the situation in the violence-torn Darfur region of Sudan becomes even more desperate for its residents, the parties with the power to ease this humanitarian crisis are making precious little progress.
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Israel began easing a tight closure that aid officials had warned could lead to a health and food crisis.
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The hope for peace in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region brightened on Tuesday evening as the parties in the 21-month-old crisis signed humanitarian and security protocols together
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian operations in Sudan's troubled South Darfur area following an attack that killed two aid workers, the agency said yesterday.
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The Sudanese Government and rebel leaders from Darfur have agreed to sign two accords aimed at ending the crisis. &quot;What has been finalised is the security and humanitarian protocols,&quot; Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister Najeib Abdel-Wahab told reporters.
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Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region  faces a humanitarian "catastrophe" without rapid action to  improve the security situation and allow aid flow to those in  need, the head of the U.N.'s refugee agency said on Friday.
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Security has improved in camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when they leave their camps, a U.N. team said Saturday as it completed a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.