How many have died in Darfur?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4268733.stm (Feb 16, 2005)

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The 70,000 figure covered the worst period, before aid agencies were given greater access to Darfur. The number of deaths in the camps has now fallen, but either side of the six-month period there will still have been substantial deaths, campaigners say.

We just don't know the scale of the problem Dr Koeburgh
Added to this, is a figure for how many may have been killed in the violence.

Amnesty International's best estimate for how many may have died from violence since the conflict began - which took account of attacks on hundreds of villages - is 50,000.
The UN's emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland has admitted the total death toll in Darfur could be much higher than the 70,000 WHO figure but says he does not know.
US academic Eric Reeves estimates the figure at 340,000 at the beginning of 2005.
UK-based Dr Jan Coebergh, who once worked in Darfur, has examined a range of aid agency health surveys. He puts the figures slightly lower at about 300,000 - but he admits it is little more than a stab in the dark.
"We don't know enough about how many people are dying from violence let alone natural causes in inaccessible areas."
"The reality is that we just don't know the scale of the problem," Dr Coebergh told BBC News.

BBC news: UN's Darfur death estimate soars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4349063.stm

At least 180,000 people may have died in Sudan's Darfur region over the past 18 months, according to the United Nations' top emergency relief official.
Jan Egeland said the figure refers to victims of illness and malnutrition and excludes those who have been killed in the ethnic violence.
The UN previously gave an estimate of 70,000 non-conflict deaths.
Pro-government militia are accused of killing and raping villagers and driving two million from their homes.
The UN has not put a figure on violent deaths in the region.
Attacks 'continuing'
An average of 10,000 people have died each month over the past year-and-a-half from disease and other preventable causes, the emergency relief chief said.

How many have died in Darfur?"It could be just as well more than 200,000 [over 18 months] but I think 10,000 a month... is a reasonable figure," Mr Egeland told AFP news agency.
Last year, the World Health Organisation said it believed 10,0000 people had died each month from March to October, mostly from disease and some from random violence in camps.
Amnesty International's best estimate for how many may have died from violence since the conflict began - taking into account attacks on hundreds of villages - was 50,000 as of last month.
Most of the estimated two million people who fled their villages since the violence began in early 2003 have sought refuge in the camps in Darfur's main towns.
As many as 200,000 have also sought safety in neighbouring Chad.
A UN report earlier this year concluded that while the killings in Darfur did not amount to genocide, killings, torture, enforced disappearances and sexual violence were carried out on a widespread and systematic basis and could amount to crimes against humanity.
The BBC's Susannah Price at the UN says the latest reports from Darfur say lawlessness and attacks by the Janjaweed militia continue to blight the lives of civilians.
The Janjaweed attacked villages, targeted an internally displaced peoples camp and burnt abandoned homes to discourage those who wanted to return, she says.