Experts: Darfur faces environment crisis
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.
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As we work to provide assistance in Sudan&#39;s remote Darfur region, we are confronted on a daily basis by the horrible toll of a conflict that has taken tens of thousands of lives and has displaced more than a million people.
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More peacekeepers are needed in Sudan's Darfur region to protect refugees, a top UN envoy says.
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Darfur's instability risks a dangerous regional crisis, warns the UN aid chief as the AU mulls help for its force.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The international community is &quot;getting nowhere&quot; with the crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region, the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, said.
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The United Nations is warning of impending chaos in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, with increasing violence and a breakdown of order.
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The warnings from the United Nations, Europe and the U.S. are dire: The war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan is headed toward disaster, and Sudan's government must allow in peacekeepers to prevent it.
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The border region between Chad and Sudan must be one of the harshest and most remote environments on earth. There is no ideal place to have a refugee crisis, of course, but as locations go this is surely among the worst.
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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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The crisis in Darfur is a humanitarian disaster that threatens the entire region, French President Jacques Chirac said on Thursday while urging Sudan to accept peacekeepers.Comment
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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There is little hope of peace in Sudan unless it addresses environmental damage, a UN study finds.
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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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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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The crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, where more than a million people have fled their homes to escape violence, will worsen and the death toll could hit 300,000 this year, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
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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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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.