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1.9 million displaced in Darfur: UN
Almost two million people are displaced in Darfur, the UNâs top official in Sudan said on Monday, giving a new figure for the region where violence has worsened this year
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lmost two million people are displaced in Darfur, theUN's top official in Sudan said on Monday, giving a new figure for the regionwhere violence has worsened this year.
'We estimate that the internally displaced people [...] are close to 1.9 million, and that there are 1.3 million non-IDP's who are severely affected and/or food insecure,' Ali Al-Za'tari said in the capital of North Darfur state.
'This makes the total number of Sudanese in need in Darfur more than 3.2 million.'
But as Sudan's humanitarian needs mount, particularly in Darfur, the UN has received just over half of the funding it requested, with world attention focused on other crises, Za'tari said.
'These staggering numbers of the affected people are at the risk of fading in the midst of other crises the international community faces, for example in Central African Republic, Mali, Syria, Somalia, South Sudan, Philippines and Myanmar,' Za'tari said.
