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- The UN will have a meeting about the extremely dire situation in Darfur on Monday as the Sudanese government refuses to allow UN peacekeepers into the region.
Speaking in Geneva, Antonio Guterres, the head of UNHCR, said it was a situation which could not continue.
"I think we are facing a terrible disaster. War is starting again, violations of human rights are massive, situations of rape - these have all kinds of devastating forms of impact in the lives of this population and make us feel more and more uncomfortable because we are not able to help them.
"We cannot even have access to them. This is unacceptable, this has to stop."
Aid agencies believe their work will be impossible without an international force in Darfur.
Privately many in the UN fear the escalating violence over the last few weeks is the build-up to a major attack by government forces, says the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva, where the UNHCR is based.
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