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The United Nations has described Sudan's western Darfur region as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. For over three years since a local insurgency began, civilians have suffered attacks by government troops and nomadic militia, involving systematic rape, arson, shooting, uprooting and looting. Facts and figures on the humanitarian situation [Source: AlertNet] Sudan and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Sudan and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Total no. of people affected by conflict: 3.6 million
No. of people receiving food aid: 2.7 million
No. of residential people in need of humanitarian aid: 1.8 million
No. of displaced people: 1.8 million
Percentage of affected population accessible according to UN security standards: 78 per cent
No. of humanitarians on the ground (national and international): 14,750
No. of NGOs and UN agencies on the ground: 97
Malnutrition (moderate and severe): 11.9 per cent (2005 – down from 21.8 per cent in 2004
Mortality: 0.8 per 10,000 people per day (2005)
Primary school enrolment: 383,000 (December 2005 up from 142,000 in December 2004)
No. of child soldiers so far removed from rebel forces: 513