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Darfur fighting rages despite Sudan peace deal - UN UNITED NATIONS, Wednesday (Reuters) More police, human rights monitors and African Union peacekeepers are urgently needed in Sudan's western Darfur region where fighting rages on despite a peace accord ending a separate conflict in southern Sudan, a senior U.N. official said. Jan Pronk, the special U.N. envoy for Sudan, told the U.N. Security Council arms were flooding into Darfur, violence was spreading beyond camps for the homeless, banditry was on the rise and rebels were staging attacks near oil facilities. "We may move into a period of intense violence unless swift action is taken," Pronk said. "I do not exclude the possibility that the signature of the agreement (on the south) will be followed in the short term by an intensification of violence in and around Darfur." Pronk said he had asked the United Nations to send in 117 human rights observers and the African Union hoped to soon deploy 150 of a promised 800 police officers. |
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