Sudan Questions WHO Darfur Deaths Figures
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Sudan on Saturday questioned UN estimates that up to 70,000 people had died from hunger and disease in its remote Darfur region since a rebellion began 20 months ago.
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N'DJAMENA  - Sudan may have to grant autonomy to  Darfur to bring peace to the vast region where 1.4 million  people have been displaced by fighting and 50,000 have died,  the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday.
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The people of Darfur face more months of uncertainty, as the United Nations passed a second resolution that once again merely called on the Sudanese government to end the killings in the west of its country and took little action.
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The Christian Science Monitor - For the past three years, Arab militiamen have helped Sudan's government quell a rebellion in Darfur by slaughtering the region's mostly black African population and leaving behind a trail of rape, murder, and destruction. The result: more than 200,000 dead and 2 million displaced in what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian emergency.
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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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A total of 70,000 people are estimated to have died as a result of the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region, with hundreds still dying every day, a top U.N. official said on Friday.
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By the time Prime Minister Paul Martin addresses the United Nations fall session next week, 1,000 more people will have perished in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, because the Security Council failed to save them.
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The World Health Organization says that up to 70,000 refugees have died in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region since March 1, 2004 due to various causes, including diseases and malnutrition.
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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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As violence in Darfur escalates, a debate is growing over how many people have died in what officials call the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A U.N. agency's survey cites at least 200,000 deaths, but other studies say the death toll could be closer to 400,000 or more.
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Up to 105 civilians are thought to have died in fresh fighting in Sudan's Darfur region, the United Nations says.
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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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Sudan is obliged to ask for international support if it cannot protect the nearly 1.5 million people displaced by fighting in its remote Darfur region, the top UN envoy in Sudan said on Thursday.
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Sudan on Saturday questioned UN estimates that up to 70,000 people have died from hunger and disease in its remote Darfur region since a rebellion began 20 months ago.
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JUBA, Sudan  - 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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GENEVA, Oct 15  -- A senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official sharply criticised the shortfall in international aid for Sudan&#39;s strife-torn region of Darfur, despite the amount of political and media attention devoted to the crisis.
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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.