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news - Bleak outlook for Sudan without Darfur peace - UN

july 26th, 2010

"There is a risk of increased instability in Sudan due to a lack of a peace deal for Darfur and a looming referendum on whether South Sudan should secede from the North, the U.N. chief said in a report released on Monday.

In a bleak assessment of the situation facing the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, known as UNAMID, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's report said that violence rose in Darfur after nationwide elections in April."

MORE: "Bleak outlook for Sudan without Darfur peace - UN" (Reuters)

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