The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, United Nations

UN officials say the five-year conflict in Darfur is getting worse. They point to a rising death toll of perhaps 300,000 and a delay in fully deploying a new peacekeeping force until next year.

U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes and Rodolphe Adada, the joint representative for the U.N. and African Union in Darfur, gave the grim reports to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

They say the suffering in Sudan's Darfur region is getter even bleaker with thousands of additional people uprooted from their homes and food rations to the needy about to be cut in half.