The number of victims of the civil war in Darfur continues to rise adding to the grim figures of 200,000 dead and two million refugees.
A rebellion in Chad against the central government has displaced thousands of people, who are competing for scarce food and resources in the camps housing the 200,000 refugees from the civil war in Darfur.
In May 2006 the African Union (AU) brokered a deal between the Sudan government and one of the rebel groups in Darfur.
In terms of the deal, the Janjaweed, an armed militia linked to the government were required to disarm before the rebels, who won the right for the people of Darfur to determine their status as a region through a referendum to be held by July 2010. Representatives of the rebel group became part of the central government.
One of the rebel groups, which did not sign the peace accord has formed the National Redemption Front and demands a federal system of government.
The barrage of propaganda from the US and British governments against Sudan centres around its failure to comply with a Security Council resolution deploying a 22,000 strong UN force to supplement AU troops stationed in Darfur.
Sudan has now agreed to the stationing of 3,000 UN peacekeepers with six attack helicopters.
The Sudanese government accuses the US and Britain of trying to use a UN presence in Darfur as an avenue for interfering in Sudan's internal affairs.