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Titolo: Darfur

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UN workers 'kidnapped' in Darfur
The UN warns of an impending humanitarian disaster in Darfur
About 16 UN aid workers have been kidnapped in the troubled Sudanese region
of Darfur, the state minister for foreign affairs has said.
Nejib al-Khari Abdel Wahab said contact had been made with their abductors
and negotiations were under way.
There has been no confirmation by the UN, which is trying to tackle what it
says is a looming humanitarian crisis.
About 10,000 people have died, and a million made homeless, in a conflict
between rebels and Arab militias.
"The abduction of 16 of the workers and employees of the United Nations in
Darfur took place five hours ago and the government is currently
communicating with all sides," Mr Wahab told Reuters news agency by
telephone from Khartoum on Saturday.
 Conflict
The rebels - the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality
Movement (Jem) - began attacking government targets early last year,
claiming the government was oppressing black Africans in favour of Arabs.
The government mobilised Arab militia to fight the insurrection - but it has
been accused by human rights groups of killing, looting and raping non-Arab
residents of Darfur.
Meanwhile, the UN is set to launch an emergency humanitarian operation in
Darfur, where it says a catastrophe is now unavoidable.
The US aid agency USAid has said some 300,000 displaced people will starve -
even if aid is delivered immediately.
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From  BBC
Sudanese tell of mass rape
By Alexis Masciarelli and Ilona Eveleens
Darfur
The pro-government Janjaweed Arab militia has been accused of using
systematic rape, as well as killing and destroying the villages of black
Africans, in the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region.
The women are most at risk when they fetch water
Behind the closed door of a classroom, in the school compound where she has
been living for the last two months, 35 year-old rape-victim Khadija, spoke
of her ordeal.
"The Janjaweed arrived one evening in February in our village near Kaileck,
they had guns," she says in a quiet voice.
"They followed us when we tried to escape. The group of people I was with
was forced back to Kaileck. They had surrounded the whole town."
"They separated men and women. Then the Janjaweed selected the prettiest
women."
"Four men raped me for 10 days."
"Every day, women were picked up, taken to the bush where they were raped
and brought back to Kaileck. The next day it would start again."
Hostage population
Khadija is one of some 40,000 people to have found shelter in the town of
Kass, in the south of Darfur.
In the past 16 months, the conflict opposing the Sudan government and its
militia allies to the rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), has killed at least 10,000 people and
displaced more than one million across the large western Sudanese region.
Kaileck is now a ghost town
"Rape appears to be a feature of most attacks in Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa
areas of Darfur," says the latest Human Rights Watch report on the Darfur
conflict.
"The extent of the rape is difficult to determine since women are reluctant
to talk about it and men, although willing to report it, speak only in
generalities."
Many witnesses say the population of Kaileck was held hostage by the
Janjaweed for two months, despite repeated appeals to the commissioner of
Kass.
Men were also picked up daily and killed.
The accounts are difficult to verify, but accord with the findings of human
rights workers in recent months.
Kaileck is now an empty desolated town, with every single house and hut
burnt or destroyed.
Ethnic choice
"It is very difficult for me as I am a Fur women and these are Arab men",
says Khadija, covering herself with an orange scarf.
"These are my only clothes. My sister gave them to me, because the Janjaweed
abandoned me naked."
"Now I am three-months pregnant. It will be a child from the Janjaweed. But
I won't reject this baby. He will be my baby."
"When he grows up, he will decide whether he wants to be a Fur or an Arab.
If he chooses to be an Arab, he could go with them. If he decides to be a
Fur, he will be welcome to stay with us."
In the same classroom, a much younger woman listens.
Fifteen-year-old Aziza says she was also raped by the Janjaweed back in
February.
"When Kaileck was attacked, I fled towards the mountains, but five horsemen
caught me and took me far away in a field," she says.
"All five of them raped me twice. They kept me for 10 days. They whipped
me."
"I could not say anything because they were armed. All I could do was to
cry."
"They tied up my arms and my legs and would only release me when they raped
me. They called me Abeid (slave in Arabic)."
"Eventually they abandoned me. Someone told my mother where I was and she
came to take me back. I could not walk by myself."
Pain
But the ordeal did not stop then.
The women now venture out in large groups for protection
"When I arrived in Kaileck, I learnt that the Janjaweed had killed my
father."
"I am still in pain and I can't really control myself. But I have not seen
any doctor."
In Kass, like many other towns and camps in Darfur, women are still at the
risk of being rape when they go out to gather firewood or fetch water.
Their best protection, they say, does not come from the army or local police
force, but by going in large groups which are more able to defend
themselves.
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