Turmoil May Kill 350,000 in Darfur
Starvation and disease may kill 350,000 Sudanese if the world fails to quell violence stoking a refugee crisis in the Darfur area of Africa’s largest country, an influential think tank said.
“Urgent international action is required on several fronts if ‘Darfur 2004’ is not to join ‘Rwanda 1994’ as shorthand for international shame,” the International Crisis Group said in a report, referring to a 1994 genocide. The U.N. estimates 1 million people have been displaced by the conflict in Darfur, and calls it the largest humanitarian emergency facing the world.
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