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« on: December 27, 2004, 01:37:37 PM »
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
DARFUR – Humanitarian Emergency
Fact Sheet #12, Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 December 17, 2004
Note: This report updates fact sheet #11, dated December 10, 2004.
DARFUR EMERGENCY – NUMBERS AT A GLANCE SOURCE
Conflict-Affected Persons in 2.48 million people U.N. Office for the Coordination of
Darfur and Eastern Chad Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 1.65 million people OCHA
in Darfur
Sudanese Refugees 200,000 people U.N. High Commissioner for
in Eastern Chad Refugees (UNHCR)
Conflict-Affected Persons in 1.16 million people during October U.N. World Food Program (WFP)
Darfur Receiving Food Assistance 1.3 million people during November
Crude Mortality Rates (CMR)1 and North Darfur – 1.5 CMR; 2.5 U5MR Preliminary data from the U.N.
Under-five Mortality Rates
(U5MR)2 for Darfur
West Darfur – 2.9 CMR; 3.1 U5MR
Kalma Camp (South Darfur) – 3.8 CMR;
World Health Organization (WHO)
11.7 U5MR
Total FY 2004 – 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance to Darfur....................... ............ $290,501,434
Total FY 2004 – 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance to Eastern Chad ......................... $75,672,072
Total FY 2004 – 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance for the Darfur Emergency ...... $366,173,506
Total FY 2003 – 2005 USG Humanitarian Assistance for the Darfur Emergency ...... $368,245,080

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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2004, 01:39:41 PM »
Are you stuck in an aid posting loop stringer? :D

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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2004, 01:43:00 PM »
LOL Nilsen.  

I think I am.  It must be the sun affecting me.  I don't have a stylish hat to protect me like you do! :D

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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2004, 01:45:17 PM »
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LOL Nilsen.  

I think I am.  It must be the sun affecting me.  I don't have a stylish hat to protect me like you do! :D


-13 and foggy here today so im wearing one with insulation today :aok

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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2004, 03:01:11 PM »
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Are you stuck in an aid posting loop stringer? :D


Really good idea, it lets us evil warmongering yankees know where some of our tax dollars are going. That would go a long way to provide humvee armor.

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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2004, 03:11:20 PM »
GScholz,
I do appreciate your input, but I don't think it's just "he" who needs to get the point.

That stupid throw-away line of Spit's did get me started on this.  But I don't think the US, or any other developed country for that matter, gets enough credit for the steps we take to help make the planet better.  The focus is always on the negative.

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« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2004, 07:09:07 PM »
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You can of course say that, but there is some truth in what Spit said ... it was just unfair to single out Americans. "Generous" and "caring" are not words I would choose to describe the western world, in a world where more than five thousand people die every day in Africa alone from war, famine, and disease.

The people that actually help deserve all the credit they can get, but most of us just sit on our fat tulips in our comfortable chairs saying "oh that's so terrible" while we watch them die on TV.


We tried to help a small country called "Somolia" a few years back and got shot at and had some of our men drug through the streets for our trouble. The UN in it's infinate wisdom watched as one group the Hutu's slaughtered the tusi's by the thousands as they pulled the handful of Blue Beanies they sent to "Stop the violence" out. I recall watching a film of Belgium troops cutting up their UN blue caps in disgust. So If you find a way to keep them from shooting at you as you attempt to deliver food, Or for the UN to grow a pair let us know.

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« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2004, 07:09:32 PM »
The western world in general are to busy keeping the wealth and sharing little. This applies to _all_ countries that are doing pretty well. We are all selfish even if we choose to admit it or not.

It can't and wont last forever tho even if we really want it to.

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« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2004, 08:39:14 PM »
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-13 and foggy here today so im wearing one with insulation today :aok


-13 Cent or Fahren!!!???!!

Bloody hell, and i was complaining when it was 18 deg C at my mother inlaws over Christmas (but a nice 31 deg now back home :) )

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« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2004, 08:44:34 PM »
There is no shortage to the magnimity of the West; it is the recipents of the largesse with no respect for themselves or anyone else, who create and sustain suffering.

Throw your guilt off, GS, it ain't yer fault!

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« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2004, 03:28:51 AM »
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-13 Cent or Fahren!!!???!!

Bloody hell, and i was complaining when it was 18 deg C at my mother inlaws over Christmas (but a nice 31 deg now back home :) )

 Tronsky


-13 celcius

its warm today tho... +2 celcius :)

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« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2004, 06:28:25 AM »
Mate...you have my permission to buy yourself a new woollen jumper!

No wonder you buggers are such good skiers, and we're bloody good swimmers :)

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« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2004, 08:41:42 AM »
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I didn't say it was our fault. Just that we don't care ... not enough to do something about it.


Speak for yourself.  Most of the rest of us do care, but there's really damned little to be done.  When we hand out food, we create dependants.  When we try to teach, the knowledge is wasted.  When we eradicated disease by vaccination, the population soars.

It is a long process, creating civilization where there is none.  It takes generations.  It takes political change in the target area.  It sometimes takes cultural destruction.  We should ask ourselves if we SHOULD be doing it.

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« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2004, 09:23:59 AM »
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-13 celcius

its warm today tho... +2 celcius :)


The forecast for a few days from now is a high of -24 C and a low of -32 C. Ugh.