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Sudan warns Britain that intervention could turn into another Iraq By George Jones, Andrew Sparrow and Rachel Sylvester (Filed: 23/07/2004) British troops are welcome to enter the Darfur region, Sudan's foreign minister said yesterday, but they would rapidly find themselves in an Iraq-like situation. Responding to a British newspaper report suggesting that Tony Blair was considering options to send troops to the region, Mustafa Ismail said his government was willing to withdraw from Darfur. Children at Abu Shok refugee camp "We will give him the chance if he can give security to Darfur," Mr Ismail said in Paris. But he...

Sudanese Troops Attack and Destroy Camp in Darfur Gripping a pair of pliers, a doctor pried a bullet from Amina Kharim's swollen and bleeding left arm. Eight hours earlier, at dawn Tuesday, she had been asleep in a shelter of grass and sticks when government soldiers and police stormed into this camp of 5,000 in South Darfur. Residents and relief workers said the troops burned shelters, smashed water pipes, fired tear gas and beat people as they fled half-asleep from their huts. Within five hours, they said, the camp was reduced to ashes and about 100 residents were crammed into...

Southern Baptist Relief Workers Reach Out To Refugees In Sudan; They Ask Everyone to Pray 1 million are homeless and as many as 30,000 dead in western Sudan's Darfur province. By MARK KELLY Southern Baptist relief funds are helping hungry and thirsty refugees in the midst of what the United Nations is calling the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. More than 1 million people are homeless and as many as 30,000 dead in western Sudan's Darfur province as Arab militias drive black Africans from their land. Arab "Janjaweed" militias have burned thousands of homes and used systematic rape to...

Geneva Natsios says 1 million could die if aid cannot reach them Describing Darfur in the Republic of Sudan as "the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world today," USAID Administrator Andrew S. Natsios warned June 3 that close to a million people could die if conditions do not allow humanitarian aid to reach the victims rapidly. "We estimate right now if we get relief in we will lose a third of a million people. And if we don't, the death rates could be dramatically higher, approaching a million people," Natsios said. "These people have no way of supporting themselves,...