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The Wall Street Journal reports

After the killings, the rapes, and the expulsion of nearly two million farmers from their land, the people of Darfur are now facing a new threat -- the worst food shortage in decades.

Sudanese First Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha will be visiting the UN in NY today. A protest is planned.

Kofi Annan released a report claiming that Sudan has failed to disarm militias or arrest those responsible for attacking villagers.

The Washington Post has a much needed story regarding the international community's inability to produce an accurate death toll in Darfur

Sudan is stalling efforts by the United Nations to survey death rates in Darfur, contributing to confusion over the number of people who have died since a government-backed Arab militia launched a bloody counterinsurgency campaign nearly two years ago against the region's black villagers, according to U.N. officials.

The conflict has produced widely varied estimates of the death toll in Darfur, with the United Nations estimating that as many as 70,000 displaced Darfuris died between March and October 2004 and some outside analysts suggesting more than 400,000 have been killed or perished from disease or malnutrition since the violence began in February 2003.

The "statistical anarchy" over Darfur also reflects that neither the United Nations nor the United States nor any other institution is seeking to assemble a comprehensive estimate of the number of people who have died as a result of violence, disease and malnutrition since the war began, said John Prendergast, a specialist on Sudan at the International Crisis Group.

Human Rights Watch calls Darfur "a human rights catastrophe."