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 KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The United Nations humanitarian chief visited Sudan's western Darfur region on Sunday to gauge living conditions for civilians displaced by violence between government-backed militias and rebel groups, the U.N. said.
Jan Egeland, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, had been barred by the Sudanese government from visiting Darfur and Sudan's capital, Khartoum, in April.
His visit to the region Sunday came two days after Sudanese authorities and Darfur's main rebel group reached a peace agreement that could help end a conflict that has killed at least 180,000 people in three years and displaced some 2 million.
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