Death Rates in Darfur Rising, WHO Says
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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.
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The first scientific survey to assess the deadly nature of the conflict in the Sudan&#39;s Darfur area has found that death rates there were three to 10 times higher than those normally found in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the gravity of the crisis.
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As many as 10,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region are dying from disease and violence every month in the teeming camps where they've taken refuge, U.N. health agency officials said Monday.
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Between 170,000 and 255,000 people have died in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region since 2003, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  While violence remains a major concern, the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region is easing and large-scale deaths from malnutrition and disease are likely to be averted as international assistance pours in, UN ...
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Sudan&#039;s Darfur region is facing a new wave of killings and rapes, with fighting between rebel factions displacing thousands of villagers despite a recent peace agreement, the U.N. humanitarian chief said.
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GENEVA  - The mounting death toll in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region could rise six-fold by the end of the year, hitting 300,000, a senior U.S. aid official said Monday.
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DARFUR is on the brink of chaos as violence increases, order collapses and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, has warned in his darkest assessment yet of
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Cease-fire violations are on the rise in Sudan's bloodied Darfur region and the fighting is "poisoning" peace talks, where government and rebel negotiators met Monday for the first time, officials said.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them  children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of  violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid  effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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At least 70,000 refugees have died since March because of poor conditions in camps in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, and more will die at the same rate unless countries contribute the $300
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18  - The toll of homeless in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, where marauding Arab militiamen are driving African villagers off their land in the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis, has risen to 1.2 million, the United Nations said on ...
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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Rape, killing and looting are  increasing as tribal tensions escalate in Sudan&#039;s troubled  Darfur province, the United Nations&#039; top envoy to the country  said on Wednesday, despite a peace deal he had helped broker.
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Rates of pregnancy-related deaths  in south Sudan are the highest in the world, a United Nations  Population Fund (UNFPA) official said.
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Violence has escalated in Sudan's Darfur region since January, throwing another 160,000 people out of their homes and forcing 4.2 million people, about two-thirds of the population, to go on relief aid, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.
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Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council today to take swift action in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region where he said violence was on the rise, the number of displaced