EU to press for genocide probe in Sudan

THE European Union yesterday said there was no indication that Sudan had acted to disarm armed militias in the war-torn Darfur region and agreed to press for a UN investigation into whether genocide was being committed.

The call came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort.

The Sudanese government has been accused of supporting and arming the Arab Janjaweed militia to put down revolts by black African farmers over land and water.