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12/19/2004:

"Darfur Crisis Has Complex Roots"

December 17, 2004 - Since rebel groups in the Darfur region of western Sudan took up arms against the government nearly two years ago, the violence has resulted in what the United Nations says is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. From our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu examines the roots of the conflict and the enormous difficulties mediators face in trying to end the war.

The civil war in western Sudan erupted in February 2003, when an armed rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), began a series of attacks on government forces and installations in the region.

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