Deaths in Darfur could reach 300,000, US official says
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GENEVA--The death toll in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region could rise sixfold by the end of the year--hitting 300,000--because of worsening food shortages among refugees, a senior US aid official said yesterday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudan on Saturday disputed a United Nations report saying 70,000 people have died since March in refugee camps in western Darfur province, saying the number couldn't be more than 7,000.
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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, the World Health Organisation said on 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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THE crisis in Darfur is now affecting at least two million people as violence and insecurity in the war-torn region of Sudan intensify, the United Nations warned last night.
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A top UN aid official warned that the number of people chased from their homes in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region would reach two million by next month.
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The State Department says a US investigation of violence in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region has confirmed a &quot;pattern&quot; of ethnic-based attacks by Arab militiamen and Sudanese government forces against black African villagers.
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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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The United States declared on Thursday genocide has occurred in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region and blamed the Khartoum government and Arab militias for the crisis that has driven more than a million people from their homes.
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Refugees fleeing the Darfur region of Sudan have described conditions that amount to a campaign of genocide by the Sudanese government, US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday Darfur was close to a catastrophe, as the United States sought to rebuke Sudan for trying to scare off potential U.N. troop contributors.
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Darfur was about 10,000, blaming malnutrition and disease. He said the figure of 70,000 did not take into account deaths from violence.
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Chaos is looming in Sudan's western Darfur region as violence increases, order collapses, and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, according to a U.N. report issued Monday.
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The UN chief says escalating violence in Sudan's Darfur region risks suffering on a "catastrophic scale".
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The United States is increasingly worried about attacks by rebel groups in Darfur even as Sudan seems to be reining in militias on the other side of the conflict, a senior US official said on Friday.
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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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A scientifically rigorous US death count for Sudan's Darfur region says well over 200,000 people have died.