WFP Relying On Airdrops To Bring Food In West Darfur
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Mud continues to be one of the biggest obstacles to relief efforts in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Heavy rains have washed out roads and airstrips and the rainy season is expected to last another month or two.
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Two charity workers have been shot dead as they travelled through Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur. The pair, from Save the Children UK, were helping to distribute food in the troubled area when their vehicles came under fire yesterday.
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The Bush administration is pressing the United Nations to reward Sudan with a major package of international debt relief and reconstruction funds if the Islamic state
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese government faced intense Western and African Union pressure to accept additional observers and soldiers in the Darfur region, as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain flew to Sudan yesterday to urge the country to do more to disarm marauding militias.
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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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The US has provided airlifts and pledged $300 million to support African troops in west Sudan. By Abraham McLaughlin - staff writer and Duncan Woodside - contributor.
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The World Food Program (WFP) has flown 100 tons of cookies into Haiti for the victims of the devastating Tropical Storm Jeanne, a WFP official announced Thursday.
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Stars from the worlds of rock and pop have united on an album released on the Internet Friday to raise funds for the people of the crisis-hit Darfur region of western Sudan.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The UN World Food Program suspended food convoys to the Darfur region in western Sudan after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, UN humanitarian officials said.
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Sex attacks on displaced women  collecting firewood in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have  surged to 200 a month from just a handful as security  deteriorates, an international aid agency said on Wednesday.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, March 3 -- In this dusty market town in northern Darfur, a lucky few with satellite dishes can get news of the war surrounding them from CNN or the BBC. Others rely on a tree.
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The World Food Program said Thursday that it is racing against time to deliver food to some 600,000 needy Afghans in villages that will soon be cut off by heavy winter snow.
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The United Nations' food relief agency is gearing up for a "critical stage" in feeding refugees in western Sudan as more people flee ethnic violence there and the rainy season peaks, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is appealing for donors to urgently help meet a shortfall of 200 million dollars needed for its humanitarian program in the war-torn western Darfur region of Sudan.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is supporting African Union efforts to bolster its monitoring and protection presence in Sudan&#39;s trouble Darfur region.
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Displaced Sudanese women waiting for food to be distributed Nov. 9, in el-Sereif refugee camp, on the outskirts of Nyala town in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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The Air Force has sent three cargo planes to central Africa to provide transport and other help for African peacekeepers going to Darfur, the violent region of western Sudan where 70,000 people have died in 20 months of warfare.