» Press Release: CE-DAT's view on the UN OCHA mortality estimate in Darfur
Scientific evidence supports UN OCHA extrapolation on Darfur mortality (download pdf — 230 KB).
On April 22nd 2008, Sir John Holmes, the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, mentioned at the Security Council that the conflict in Darfur might have caused 300,000 dead as of that day. He added this “is not a very scientifically based figure" but that "it's a reasonable extrapolation”. The CRED CE-DAT team, which has been monitoring the Darfur situation since 2005, examined the scientific data to see if it supports Holmes’s statement.
