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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The U.N. refugee agency appealed Tuesday for additional money to help millions displaced by violence in Darfur as Sudanese, African and U.N. officials negotiate a peacekeeping deal for the troubled region. Despite a peace agreement signed last May between the Sudanese government and a single rebel group, fighting has only worsened in Darfur, a vast region of western Sudan where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million chased from their home since 2003.
"With constant fighting between government troops and rebels opposed to the (peace agreement), as well as regular attacks by Arab militia on African tribes, there is no prospect of return" for the millions of people living in camps, said the United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees in a statement appealing for funds Tuesday.
Darfur is the world's largest ongoing humanitarian effort, with some 15,000 aid workers, including 1,000 from abroad, according to the U.N.
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