Darfur villagers 'facing famine'
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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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Displaced Sudanese women waiting for food to be distributed Nov. 9, in el-Sereif refugee camp, on the outskirts of Nyala town in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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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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About 70,000 displaced people are thought to have died in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region since March, mainly from disease and malnutrition, a UN official says.
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UNITED NATIONS: Sudanâs Darfur region was heading for total anarchy and the United Nations would be blamed if the Security Council did not take action, a senior UN official warned on Thursday.
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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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While many Sudanese displaced by three years of fighting in the Darfur region are living on handouts in refugee camps, the country as a whole is in the midst of an economic boom.
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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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A World Food Programme survey says almost half of all families in Darfur are hungry, confirming aid agency fears.
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KONDOBE, Sudan  - Three elderly Darfuri men hack away at a pile of logs, struggling to build a new home in Kondobe town more than a week after they fled their village to escape government attacks and militia looting.
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Both the government and resisters in Darfur, Sudan are reportedly losing control over their soldiers as tensions increase in the country.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - A major assault by the Sudanese army and allied militia has left two Darfur towns badly damaged by fire, sources close to a U.N. reconnaissance mission to the region said on Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 11 (IPS) - A famine is looming in Darfur, according to members  of the European Parliament who have just returned from a visit to  the war-ravaged Sudanese province.
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Millions of people face starving to death after a drought in Afghanistan, the UK charity Christian Aid warns.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - A rebel threat to withdraw from  a cease-fire monitoring commission in Sudan's troubled Darfur  region would spell disaster for the faltering peace process,  the United Nations said Wednesday.
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British charities launched an emergency appeal Thursday to limit further suffering when the annual rains arrive in about a month in Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur region and neighbouring Chad.
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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.