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"Higher" death toll in Darfur

Nairobi/London: More than 180,000 persons have died from hunger and disease during the last 18 months of the Darfur conflict, the United Nations has said, as negotiations continued at its New York headquarters to break the deadlock on a new Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on the Sudanese Government. A spokesman for the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said an average 10,000 Sudanese civilians were dying a month, much higher than earlier estimates. They were victims mainly of starvation or of disease in refugee camps after being driven from their villages by Sudanese soldiers and Government-backed Janjaweed militiamen. The estimates exclude those killed in the fighting. Khartoum accused the U.N. of producing the figures as a ploy to get the Security Council to take action against Sudan, and demanded evidence to back up the numbers.

— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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