Powell to Press Sudan to Ease the Way for Aid in Darfur.

Reports on U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's plan to press Sudanese officials to allow international relief workers to speed up their deliveries to displaced people in the country's western Darfur region. Powell's plan to deliver a blunt message in Khartoum that continued resistance by officials of the East African nation would jeopardize American-assisted negotiations to bring peace in a separate conflict in the south; Estimated number of people who are likely to diet by the end of 2004 in Darfur because of hunger, disease and the trauma of seeing their villages destroyed in the conflict that arose in 2003 between government-backed militias and two rebel groups.