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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The top U.N humanitarian official warned Friday that relief efforts in Darfur could collapse within weeks unless the government makes good on a peace deal and donors fund aid work in the troubled Sudanese region.
Jan Egeland, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the Security Council that the government must lift restrictions on aid groups if they are to do their job properly, and said relief work in the region faced a $389 million shortfall in funding.
"The next few weeks will be make or break," Egeland said. "We can turn the corner toward reconciliation and reconstruction, or see an even worse collapse of our efforts to provide protection and relief to millions of people."
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