Darfur death toll reaches 70 000
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Geneva - A total of 70 000 people are estimated to have died in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, with hundreds still dying every day, a top United Nations official said on Friday.
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The hepatitis E virus is suspected to have been responsible for the deaths of over 70 people at refugee camps in Darfur and Chad since May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday in a press release.
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Fighting near a village in Sudan&#39;s crisis-plagued Darfur region killed at least 17 people Monday, while helicopters rescued dozens of workers who fled into the bush to escape.
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World News, A senior United Nations envoy to Sudan will travel to the strife-torn region of Darfur tomorrow to inspect the areas where the Sudanese Government has claimed about 70,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have voluntarily returned to their
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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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KHARTOUM, 17 October 2004 - Sudan yesterday 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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The death count across Asia and Africa soared to nearly 77,000 and aid officials said it was likely to surpass 100,000, even as as workers rushed to bury corpses to ward off disease, report newswires.
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A local employee of aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) was killed last week in an attack by government troops in Sudan's Darfur region, MSF said, further highlighting the risks faced by humanitarian workers there.
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The ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza has so far claimed more than 70 Palestinian lives and wounded more than 250 in some of the bloodiest conflict since the start of the present intifada.
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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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Leaders representing over 100 million Christians, Muslims and Jews urged Secretary-General Kofi Annan to report the number of deaths and rapes in Sudan's Darfur region daily to highlight what they say is genocide.
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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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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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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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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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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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More than 3,000 people have been displaced since the end of August by violence in an area of Sudan&#39;s North Darfur state, a United Nations report says.