The Current Conflict

• The war is being fought over ethnic groups and tribes rather than religious matters as it was in the second Sudanese war.

• One side of the conflict consists of the Janjaweed and the Sudanese military and the other side consists various rebel groups such as the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement.

• This conflict began in 2003 primarily because of the drought, desertification and the overpopulation over the last few decades.

• A Immense amount of casualties, some estimated 50,000 deaths since the beginning of the conflict. Others have estimated 70,000 and a more recent British reports estimates around 300,000 deaths and still others have estimated more.

• Sudan government denys these estimates only estimates around 9,000 deaths.

• 2.5 million have been displaced from their home.
  

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict#Mortality_Figures