Media reports indicate that 600 died in Darfur, Sudan in May 2010, and also reported that humanitarian operations were being hampered by “bandits and kidnapping.”
— Voice of America reports: “Peacekeepers: Darfur Clashes Killed Nearly 600 in May”
— “International peacekeepers say fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region killed nearly 600 people during May, the largest monthly death toll in more than two years.”
— “Officials with the U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur say the death toll was the highest recorded since peacekeepers were deployed in January 2008.”
— … “The United Nations says the fighting and related violence has killed up to 300,000 people and displaced about 2.7 million others. Sudan puts the death toll at 10,000.”
— Montreal Gazette reports: “Darfur aid work hit – May death count soars, humanitarians stranded”
— “The May figures were about five times the average monthly death counts recorded in 2009 said Sudan expert Alex de Waal who highlighted the increase on his blog Making Sense of Sudan ( http://blogs.ssrc.org/sudan/).”
— “Aid workers who set up the world’s largest humanitarian operation in Darfur said their work was being hampered by the insecurity and an increase in bandit attacks and kidnappings.”