Malnutrition A Growing Concern In Darfur

Crisis In Sudan Deepens As Many Flee Their Homes, Hoping To Escape Hunger And Lawlessness

(AP)  Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday.

"The humanitarian situation in the last few months has become more critical in many parts of Darfur," Assistant Secretary-General Margareta Wahlstrom, the U.N.'s deputy humanitarian chief, told a news conference.

Wahlstrom said she expects Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to raise the worsening humanitarian situation in Darfur with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he visits Sudan next week.

More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted since ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in 2003, accusing it of decades of neglect. Sudan's government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known as the janjaweed - a charge it denies.

The humanitarian operation in Darfur remains the largest in the world - as it has been for the past three years - with 4 million people now dependent on humanitarian assistance as a consequence of the protracted conflict, rising tension and increasing lawlessness, she said.

She said 18 spot surveys by U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations in the three Darfur provinces all found that for the first time in three years the number of malnutrition cases has increased beyond the emergency threshold of 15 percent to "well over 17 percent being detected in some areas."

Since 2004 when a huge humanitarian effort was launched to help civilians caught in the four-year Darfur conflict, Wahlstron said, "the situation stabilized from a health and nutritional perspective."

While there is still a question of whether the increasing malnutrition represents a permanent deterioration, or whether it is the result of the lean season between harvests, Wahlstrom emphasized that in past years "we have never seen a decline."

[keithle1]

The last thing any Black Americans want to do
is go back to Africa to live. Other than skin color, what makes them African? They don''t have anything in common with people born in Africa.

We don''t have to search far for major problems that need to be addressed in USA. We don''t need to look overseas.

Africa is like a poor, pathetic cousin who has their hand out every time you turn around.

[j-whitman]

cmp271,,, Don''t count on any help from Bush for Appalachia, unless you want to sacrifice the mountains --
-- Remember, this administration attacked the UN every sense they got into office, flat out denying the genocide & ignored the conditutions in Darfur that''s now spread to Chad just for this failed Iraq War of Roses.

[cmp271]

Let the so called "African American" community support this effort. After all they don''t want to be associated with just be Americans. Send them back to Africa to help their ancestral homes. Or don''t they have welfare there???

There is malnutrition in our own country. Let''s take care of America first!!!

Appalachia is a real thing in America. And its spreading.

[keithle1]

The rest of the world has to jump & pump
in money & aid EVERY time there is a crisis/emergency/tragedy in Africa?

Might as well just set up a bunch of permanent bases with food, water, medicine, doctors, UN troops, tents, etc. Open up a bank account. USA can wire money to it on an hourly basis. We''ll give til it hurts. We still have some money in the Treasury.

[radiob-2009]

Alot of callous remarks for these people who have died over the last 4 years and the 2.5 million displaced and now the 4 million dependent upon assistance to live. We as a world are watching genocide being perpetrated and doing "virtually nothing" to end it. The UN needs its face slapped along with all of the nations that compose it for allowing this to continue. Does not the janjaweed have a affilation with Al Queda? So is this not a part of our War on Terror?



A recent international intelligence document says there are credible reports that a cadre of about 15 al Qaeda operatives in Sudan are providing training to troops under the control of Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal.

This is striking given the recent mentions of the janjaweed in Osama bin Laden''s most recent public pronouncements, where the Arabs fighters in Sudan are congratulated along with the Islamists in Somalia.

[lars008-2009]

it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

[xzavierbrown]

dont fret..the UN is still investigating the matter..they will have a solution in hummmmm

about another 25 years??..then they would implement the solution..and that would take another 25 years to get the europeans to agree who would lead...

THE UN IS INCOMPETENT AND SHOULD BE DISBANDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[keithle1]

Hey, it''s Africa. The misery is neverending.

So what else is new?