Cairo - International relief agencies are sounding the alarm about a looming food crisis in western Sudan as they report a growing number of people fleeing militias burning their villages and farmland.
The United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan warned on Monday that the problem there "may emerge as the worst humanitarian crisis in the Sudan since 1998" when tens of thousands of people died in a region just to the south.
The UN co-ordinator's office has in the past month raised its estimate from 400 0000 to 500 000 for the number of people displaced within the Darfur region, in addition to 70 000 who have actually crossed the border into Chad.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1445323,00.htmlIf I were President the world wouldn't be like this! It would all be like Hawaii.
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