UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s envoy Jan Pronk said he would report back to the Security Council next on the situation in Darfur, the region of western Sudan devastated by 19 months of conflict. “Atrocities, very bad things, killings, rape, burning of villages have taken place,” Pronk told a press conference in Khartoum, but stopped short of describing what was happening there as “genocide.” He said close to two million people had now been affected by the fighting between pro-government militias and Darfur rebels, which the United Nations says has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Full Story
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