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UN says Darfur is now a low-intensity conflict
[Al Arabiya Latest] Violence in Sudan's Darfur region has subsided into a "low-intensity conflict," a U.N. envoy said on Monday, but the United States and its allies disagreed, according to diplomats.Briefing the U.N. Security Council, the joint U.N.-African Union special representative to Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, told the 15 member states that around 130-150 people were dying each month due to violence in Darfur, a region roughly the size of France. "The situation has changed from the period of intense hostilities in 2003-2004 when tens of thousands of people were killed," Adada told the council. "Today, in purely numerical terms it is a low-intensity conflict." Posted by: Fred 2009-04-28 |
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