2007年VOA标准英语-UN Says Humanitarian Situation Worsening in Dar
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By Suzanne Presto1New York
31 August 2007
The U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian2 Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator3, Margareta Wahlstrom, says the humanitarian situation in Sudan's western Darfur region is worsening. From VOA's United Nation's bureau, Suzanne Presto reports.
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| A Sudanese refugee woman carries her baby outside a private home where she and others are temporarily being housed in Kadesh Barnea, Israel, 19 Aug 2007 |
The U.N. emergency relief coordinator says violence and insecurity displaced another 55,000 people between June and late August, bringing the total to 250,000 this year, and 2.2 million people in total.
Wahlstrom says aid workers are concerned that malnutrition4 is on the rise in Darfur. She says several surveys indicate that, in certain areas, about one-in-five people (17 percent) are malnourished.
Wahlstrom says there is a lean season every year in Darfur, but she says aid workers have never seen this pattern of decline.
"With a huge effort of the international and humanitarian community, from 2004 the situation stabilized5 from a health and nutritional6 perspective," she said. "So this is the first time we see the potential of a deterioration7 for which we are very worried, and we put this in the context of the very unstable8 situation."
An estimated 200,000 people in Darfur have been killed during more than four years of fighting between rebels, the government and militia9 groups.
In late July, the U.N. approved a joint10 United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur. When fully11 deployed12 it will be the world's largest peacekeeping mission, comprised of more than 19,000 military personnel and about 6,400 police officers.
Wahlstrom says humanitarian workers have high hopes for this force.
"The expectation that the result of the deployment13 of the mission on the situation of people will yield almost immediate14 impact will be very high," she added.
On the subject of broader relief efforts, Wahlstrom says Sudanese authorities have been more cooperative in recent months, particularly in terms of administrative15 tasks, such as issuing visas to relief workers. But she notes that humanitarian groups are concerned that authorities ordered the top official in Sudan for the international aid agency CARE to leave the country.
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