The crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, where more than a million people have fled their homes to escape violence, will worsen and the death toll could hit 300,000 this year, a senior U.S. official said on Monday. Although the U.N. and humanitarian agencies speak of 50,000 dead so far from fighting, hunger and disease, the coordinator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) humanitarian program said the figure was guesswork. “The crisis has not yet peaked. We have not yet seen the worst in Darfur,” said William Garvelink. Full Story
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