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Darfur is a region in western Sudan. The area has witnessed a major armed conflict since 2003, when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting the government. The government then carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arabs.
The number of casualties ranges up to several hundred thousand dead, and coercive displacements have created a major humanitarian crisis.
The Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted by the United Nations in 1947. It created independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem in Palestinian territory. The plan was accepted by the Jewish Agency and rejected by Arab leaders. The Jewish territory became the state of Israel, although its exact territorial boundaries are still under dispute.
