Another Urgent UN Task: Sudan

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As many as 350,000 hungry refugees in Sudan are in immediate need of assistance if they are to survive, according to the nonprofit International Crisis Group.

And the help they most need? UN intervention to stop the violence in Sudan's western province of Darfur.

This humanitarian crisis, which has seen 30,000 killings so far and created nearly 1 million refugees, is being compared to the 1994 slaughter in Rwanda. That African tragedy saw 800,000 deaths, which the UN now regards as its greatest failure to act against genocide.

Another Urgent UN Task: Sudan....