Press Release: Scientific evidence supports UN OCHA extrapolation on Darfur mortality
On April 22nd 2008, Sir John Holmes, the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, mentioned at the Security Council that the conflict in Darfur might have caused 300,000 dead as of that day. He added this “is not a very scientifically based figure" but that "it's a reasonable extrapolation”. The CRED CE-DAT team, which has been monitoring the Darfur situation since 2005, examined the scientific data to see if it supports Holmes’s statement.
Prepared by: The CE-DAT Team
Date: April 2008 (Brussels, Belgium).
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We need to reform aid policies in states hit by conflict
Sir Jeffrey Sachs is right when he says leaders need to reconsider development aid (“A new system for development aid”, November 28). But they need to go further – and work on reconciling it with humanitarian aid while they are at it. We are witnessing the international community's widespread failure to manage humanitarian aid in fragile states to the point when development aid can kick in effectively. Nor do we see a willingness and capacity to modify long-term aid to prevent a slide into emergency conditions such as in Zimbabwe.
Prepared by: Debarati Guha-Sapir
Published in: Financial Times, 3 December.
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