Photo: Darfur Death Toll Is Hundreds of Thousands Higher Than Reported, Study Says



Relatives mourn over the body of a one-year-old child who died of malnutrition in June 2004 in a refugee camp near a town in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Official U.S. government estimates of the death toll from the war-torn Darfur region underestimate the count by hundreds of thousands, a new study says. The conflict between government-sponsored militias and rebel groups has killed at least 170,000 to 255,000 people, and the number could be much higher, researchers conclude.

Photograph by Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images


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