Darfur Mortality Update
The Sudan Tribune excerpts:
The present analysis offers an estimated total of 180,000 deaths in Darfur over the past 18 months. This includes a figure of 80,000 violent deaths…The US Agency for International Development’s “Projected Mortality Rates in Darfur, 2004-2005″ suggests that over 2,500 people are now dying daily—mainly invisibly.
The current “war-affected” population may reasonably be estimated at over 2.3 million…The rains have greatly intensified, logistical resources and transport capacity have proven ever more inadequate, and fewer than 1 million people received food from the World Food Program in July, though this represented a significant increase from June.
Indeed, the most troubling part of any calculation of mortality and morbidity in Darfur is the unknown number of people who are neither in the camps, nor accessible by UN or humanitarian organizations….They are certainly aren’t in the camps, which may hold over 1 million people at this point, but not over 1.5 million. Where are the other 2.5 million to 3 million people of the African tribal groups that trying to survive without food or humanitarian assistance?
Jan Pronk, UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan’s special representative for Sudan, continues with policies of expediency and temporizing. …Jan Pronk, quoted Thursday in the Akhbar Al-Youm daily, said an action plan agreed to by Khartoum ‘does not set 30 days as a deadline but as a period which can be renewed and amended until all provisions’ of a Security Council resolution are implemented.”
