Congressional Digest

International Debates Archives September 2004 No. 6 Vol. 2
Foreword

Crisis in Sudan

Global Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Response

Foreword

Sudan, Africa’s largest and most diverse country, is today the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, brought about by a war centered in the western province of Darfur. More than a million people have been displaced from their homes and are living in disease-ridden camps, where some 30,000 have already died. More than 100,000 others have fled to remote desert locations in neighboring Chad. The United States Agency for International Development estimates that if current conditions persist, at least 350,000 will die of disease and malnutrition by the end of the year. The ethnic conflict precipitating this crisis has…

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