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Quote: UNICEF: Bad Health Kills Darfur Children By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU The Associated Press Friday, October 6, 2006; 3:59 PM MELLIT, Sudan -- Myriam Ibrahim does not like to talk about her daughter Fawzia. The smallest of triplet girls born in May, the infant died last month in Darfur. Now, the 28-year-old mother has just a week of powdered milk for her two remaining babies _ and no idea how she will feed them afterward. Myriam Ibrahim, 28, holds her four-month-old baby Fayrous in a clinic in the North Darfur town of Mellit in Sudan Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006 as her other baby Fardous sleeps at left. The third triplet, Fawzia, died a month ago from malnutrition and illness, and the U.N. Children's Fund estimates that about 80 children under the age of five die each day in Darfur. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou) (Alfred De Montesquiou - AP) PHOTOS The week's events from around the world, captured in pictures. » VIEW THIS WEEK'S PHOTOS Save & Share Tag This Article Saving options 1. Save to description: Headline (required) Byline 2. Save to notes (255 character max): Blurb 3. Tag This Article "Fawzia started having fever, then diarrhea, and then she died. It was a month ago," Ibrahim said with the soft, sad smile so common to Darfurian women as they recount their survival. Each day in Darfur, 80 children under age 5 die because of malnutrition, disease and generally poor living conditions created by violence in this barren region of western Sudan, the U.N. Children's Fund estimates. When Ibrahim gave birth to her triplets in May, stress and lack of food left her with no milk of her own for her daughters. Fawzia weighed barely three pounds and was being fed liquid protein through a tube in her nose when an Associated Press reporter met with the family in June at a hospital in El Fasher, North Darfur's capital. After emergency care at the hospital, the triplets and their mother went back to their hometown of Mellit, about 30 miles north. But when Ibrahim, who has three other children, returned to Mellit, the violence in the region had driven off aid workers, and she was among some 350,000 people who were deprived of any medical or food aid. Thirteen humanitarian workers were killed over the summer due to rebel infighting and a large government offensive. "Lack of access and the humanitarian pullout likely means that child mortality is going to go up again rapidly," said Jonathan Vietch, the UNICEF emergency chief for Sudan. More than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced in three years of fighting between the government and rebels in Darfur. An ill-equipped and understaffed African Union peacekeeping force has tried without success to quell the violence. Meanwhile, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has repeatedly rejected allowing a stronger U.N. peacekeeping force to replace the AU troops.