Darfur crisis now affects two million, UN reports
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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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More peacekeepers are needed in Sudan's Darfur region to protect refugees, a top UN envoy says.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced
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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 ( President Bush on Friday pressed for international action to address a "dire" situation in Darfur region of Sudan where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced by fighting.
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A UN-led force for Darfur would need up to 18,600 troops and intense international pressure has to be put on Sudan to accept the intervention, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said.
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Security has deteriorated in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in the past month and violence drove a further 220,000 people from their homes, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan said on Tuesday.
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DARFUR is on the brink of chaos as violence increases, order collapses and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, has warned in his darkest assessment yet of
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The Darfur conflict in Sudan has unleashed a crisis on the scale of the African famines of the 1980s, the International Red Cross says.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United Nations said on  Wednesday it was concerned by Sudan's lack of progress in  bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people  have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.
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Rising violence in Darfur has led to almost 500,00 people being denied access to aid, agencies say.
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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.
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In the Darfur region of western Sudan, nearly 10,000 people per month have lost their lives from malnutrition and disease adding up to 70,000 deaths since the crisis started in February of 2003.
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NYALA, Sudan  - Refugee camps in Chad housing some 200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity and placing a huge burden on Sudan&#39;s impoverished western neighbour, the United Nations says.
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Between 6,000 to 10,000 of an estimated 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur are dying every month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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17 November 2004 - Members of the United Nations Security Council arrived today in Nairobi ahead of a two-day meeting devoted to the civil conflicts engulfing Sudan, including the crisis in the western region of Darfur and the long-running war in the
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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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The conflict in Darfur has spread to two neighboring countries and is now in "free fall" with six million people facing the prospect of going without food or protection, the outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday.