U.N.: Up to 10,000 Dying a Month in Darfur Camps
Monday, September 13, 2004 at 03:55AM
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are
dying each month from disease and violence in Darfur camps, despite the
international aid effort in the vast and arid region, the World Health
Organization said Monday. A study of settlements in the west and the
north of the conflict ridden region, carried out by the United Nations
health agency, pointed to a monthly toll of 6,000-10,000 out of a
displaced population of 1.2 million, it said. "Thousands of these are
children," said David Nabarro, who heads the WHO's health crisis action
group. "What is disturbing is that we are already six months into this
crisis," he told a news conference. [more 
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