Sudan's descent to hell

This is hardly good news:

A second aid worker from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was today arrested by Sudanese authorities over the organisation's recent report about hundreds of alleged rapes in the country's crisis-hit Darfur region.

The Sudanese government was angered by an MSF report, published in March, which said doctors working in Darfur had collected medical evidence of some 500 rapes over a period of just over four months. The report said more than 80% of the victims reported that their attackers were soldiers or members of government-allied militia

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Jan Egeland, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, said it was undeniable that rape had been happening in Darfur and said he was "very concerned about the arrests".

Mr Egeland said: "It is an incontestable fact that rape and sexual violence are rampant in the ongoing crisis in Darfur."

I find this all so depressing. Sudan is further tarnishing its repuation (if such a thing is possible).

However, we should not lose sight of the fact that the 90,000 annual deaths are dwarfed by the global annual deaths due to poverty.