Study Reveals 'Demographic Catastrophe' in Darfur
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Researchers called the situation in Darfur a "demographic catastrophe" on Friday after the first scientific study done in the region found high death rates both before and after the displacement of some 1.5 million people.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
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Renewed insecurity stops Oxfam delivering vital aid to 200,000 people in Darfur - Security in Darfur has deteriorated over the past two weeks leaving nearly 200,000 people in Darfur cut off from vital aid supplies.
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ARDAMATA CAMP, Sudan  - The 25-year-old Darfuri woman was raped in front of her two young children, whose screams haunted her during an attack which she is too ashamed to tell her husband about.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - The violence in Sudan&#39;s western province of Darfur, where more than 30,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, is widely portrayed as an ethnic-cleansing campaign by Arab militias ...
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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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Villages throughout Sudan's Darfur  region face an "unprecedented food crisis," worse than the  threat of famine in recent decades, the International Committee  of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday.
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Since civil war erupted in southern Sudan in 1983, more than 2 million people have died and at least 4 million have been driven from their homes.
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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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NAIROBI, Kenya  - While the world focuses on the crisis in Darfur, three times as many people have been suffering for many more years in two other conflicts involving the Sudanese government.
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THE first detailed medical study of survivors of the Sudanese genocide suggests the death toll has been seriously underestimated and concludes the massive attacks in the Darfur region amount to a demographic catastrophe.
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26 November 2004 - The United Nations emergency feeding agency said today that the security situation in western Sudanâs Darfur region was deteriorating rapidly with 300,000 displaced people cut off from all aid following a rebel attack earlier this
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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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A new report on the crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan has identified rape as a systematic weapon of ethnic cleansing being used by government-backed Janjaweed militiamen, and said Sudanese laws discriminate against female victims, who face harassment and intimidation at local police...
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Sudan disputed a U.N. report saying 70,000 people have died since March in refugee camps in western Darfur province, with a government minister insisting Saturday that the number couldn't be more than 7,000.
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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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Darfur was about 10,000, blaming malnutrition and disease. He said the figure of 70,000 did not take into account deaths from violence.