Death Toll in Sudan's Darfur Reaches 70,000 - UN
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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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Geneva - The death toll from tidal waves that struck nine Indian Ocean countries has risen to 23 700, the International Red Cross said on Monday.
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An airstrike by the Sudanese air force on villagers in southern Darfur killed or wounded nearly 100 people in a serious violation of a fragile cease-fire in the conflict-torn region, the United Nations said Friday.
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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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Violence is increasing in camps for  displaced people in Darfur, where nearly a quarter million  people have been displaced so far this year, a U.N. report said  on Monday.
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The number of people affected by conflict in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur rose to 1.8 million in August, of whom 1.45 million were internally displaced persons (IDPs), the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A Sudanese official said Tuesday that disturbingly high U.N. estimates of death among Darfur's displaced were mistaken and claimed the health situation was "normal" in the region gripped by what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
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DARFUR is a real tragedy. First of all, it is a tragedy for the two million refugees and then for the widows and orphans of the 70,000 people who have been slain.
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The world has shown "callous disregard" for the 70,000 killed in Sudan's Darfur conflict, a human rights group says.
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GENEVA - At least 70,000 people have died since March as a result of poor conditions in refugee camps in Sudan&#39;s Darfur, the United Nations health agency said Friday.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Sudan will have to grant its  Darfur region autonomy to end a conflict which has forced 1.4  million people from their homes and killed 50,000, U.N. High  Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers said Friday.
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Sudan on Saturday questioned U.N.  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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Refugee camps in Chad housing 200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity and placing a huge burden on Sudan's impoverished western neighbor, the United Nations said Friday.
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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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GENEVA The World Health Organization says at least 70-thousand people have died in refugee camps in Sudan since March. The new WHO death toll estimate is 20-thousand higher than one it released last month.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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A Sudanese government minister denied new U.N. estimates that as many as 10,000 displaced people are dying from disease and violence each month in Darfur, saying Tuesday that the numbers were mistaken and insisting the health situation in the region was "normal."