Darfur Conflict Worsens Environment
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU  DAMRAT SURMI, Sudan - Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 22  -- Since early 2003, Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region has been in the throes of armed conflict between government forces backed by Arab militias and several rebel movements.
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The worst humanitarian crisis in the world is taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan. The government responded to a revolt of peoples there by unleashing the Janjaweed Arab militias, who have raped, pillaged and burned their way across the region.
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Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder UN efforts to
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Conditions for 1.2 million Sudanese displaced in Darfur continue to worsen amid violent attacks, spreading disease, and heavy rains which wreak havoc with aid convoys, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.
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Sudan's Darfur region, already engulfed in a conflict that has forced 1.8 million people to flee their homes, faces a new threat &#151; a drought that has all but wiped out this year's harvest, the top U.S. aid official says.
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Terrified Sudanese by the thousands are again straggling into refugee camps in the Darfur region, driven from their villages by fresh violence that illustrates the challenges of ending the conflict here.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says security in Sudan's Darfur region is rapidly deteriorating, and violence could intensify.
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The EU&#39;s aid chief said the violence in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region had worsened since the government and rebels signed new security agreements two weeks ago.
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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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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said more than a million people displaced by the Darfur conflict are living in a &quot;climate of fear&quot;.
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Finally, the conflict in Darfur in western Sudan is a focal point in international diplomacy and media attention. This is the least to expect after months of bloody campaigns of murder, rape and dare I say, ethnic cleansing, starting as ...
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Sex attacks on displaced women  collecting firewood in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have  surged to 200 a month from just a handful as security  deteriorates, an international aid agency said on Wednesday.
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IT HAS been called the worldâs worst humanitarian crisis, but the United Nationsâ deadline of tomorrow for Sudan to stop the mass killings in its Darfur region is expected to pass with more slaughter by roaming gangs of militiamen.
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Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an editorial published Saturday.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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The first scientific survey to assess the deadly nature of the conflict in the Sudan&#39;s Darfur region has found that death rates there were three to 10 times higher than normally found