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This report provides an analysis of mortality and nutrition in Darfur based on surveys held in the Complex emergency database (CE-DAT). The data is presented by 3 provinces (North Darfur, South Darfur, West Darfur) and by 3 indicators (Crude Mortality Rate, Under 5 Mortality Rate, Global Acute Malnutrition). GAM is shown for different population groups, refugees, IDPs, residents and IDP-Residents (mixed populations).

Prepared by: Debarati Guha-Sapir, Olivier Degomme, Vicente Terán Gómez
Date: March 18th, 2005 (Brussels, Belgium).

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Provinces in the North and in the East are worst affected by conflict. There are currently 2.5 million displaced in the entire country, including 500,000 in the North Kivu province alone. Now the conflict is set to escalate once again. In an effort to prevent free elections in the Congo and secure its ongoing illegal extraction of natural resources, Rwanda is aggravating clashes among local militias. The green line has cut into the country since 2001. The populations living between these lines show the worst conditions for mortality and nutrition.

Prepared by: Debarati Guha-Sapir, Olivier Degomme, Vicente Terán Gómez
Date: February 22nd, 2005 (Brussels, Belgium).

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In North Darfur humanitarian actions have been hampered during the last weeks due to increased hostilities but especially due to violence against humanitarian workers. On January 3rd, government forces attacked the SLA bastion of Salah. An assessment conducted by ICRC around Sayah, showed that the main health problems people are facing there are respiratory infections, diarrhoea, rheumatism and malaria. The polio vaccination campaign in North Darfur proceeded without noteworthy incidents. According to FEWS the region is extremely food insecure.

Prepared by: Debarati Guha-Sapir, Olivier Degomme, Vicente Terán Gómez
Date: January 26th, 2005 (Brussels, Belgium).

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The Darfur region was a single state until 1994, when it was divided in to 3 states – West, North and South. To facilitate, international aid decision‐making purposes, CEDAT recognizes the three states in the data compilation and standardizes past data using location details into these three new states. The CEDAT team has analyzed a total of 30 surveys undertaken in the Darfur region since 2000 of which 17 were undertaken in 2004. All except one survey were from North and West Darfur. Therefore this brief is limited to these two regions from which we have the most information.

Prepared by: Debarati Guha-Sapir, Olivier Degomme, Vicente Terán Gómez
Date: October, 2004 (Brussels, Belgium).

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