Darfur Numbers

According to UN spokesman Jan Egeland, 180,000 people have died in Darfur over the last year and a half.

The deaths do not include people killed during ongoing violence in Sudan's arid western region, said spokesman Brian Grogan on Monday.

Last week, Egeland said earlier estimates of 70,000 dead from last March to late summer were too low, telling a news conference: "Is it three times that? Is it five times that? I don't know, but it is several times the number of the 70,000 that have died altogether."

Egeland now estimates that an average of 10,000 people have died each month over the past year and a half from malnutrition and disease, Grogan said.

I just wish that our press would cover this issue a bit more in depth and let the rest of the world know that we do care about what is going on everywhere around the globe. One day that will happen.

Full Article at AlJazeera.