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By the summer of 2004, 50,000 to 80,000 people had been killed and at least a million had been driven from their homes, causing a major humanitarian crisis in Darfur. On the 18th of September 2004, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1564, which called for a Commission of Inquiry on Darfur to assess the Sudanese conflict.

On the 31st of January 2005, the UN released a... more

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Darfur (Arabic, meaning "home of the Fur") is a region of far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad. ... Darfur covers an area of some (196,555 miles²)—about three-quarters the size of Texas, more than half the size of Kenya or slightly smaller than France. It is largely an arid plateau with the Marrah Mountains (Jebel Marra), a range of volcanic peaks rising up to 10,100 ft, in the center of... more