Sudan: Darfur fighting “displaced 30,000 in October”

The UN special envoy for Darfur has again expressed concern over the security and humanitarian situation in the Sudanese region, where violence displaced at least 30,000 civilians in October alone, and led to the deaths of seven humanitarian workers. In a statement to the UN Security Council in New York on 27 November, Jan Eliasson said the killing of the seven Sudanese aid workers was the highest monthly casualty since July 2006 and the displacement in October brought the total this year to 280,000.