United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is visiting Sudan's western region of Darfur, BBC reported. Annan has visited Kalma camp, where 100,000 displaced people are living. There he spoke to UN and aid agency staff, as well as representatives of the people living there. Annan said he had told the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Mustafa Osman Ismail, of the urgent need to create peace in Darfur - so that people could return home and plant crops. Donors have promised an extra $300m (£165m) for peacekeeping in the region. The African Union had requested $466m to enable it to triple its force in Darfur to about 7,900 troops. Annan said he was "very pleased" with the pledges made at a donor conference in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. "What we need is additional resources to cover both crises and we are appealing to the donors to really help us get the resources required to get the job done," he said. He said the world community should try its utmost to restore peace to Sudan. "Otherwise, we are going to have a major humanitarian effort which will stretch the capacities of the international community," he said. Talks between the rebels and Khartoum government are set to re-open in Abuja, Nigeria, on June 10. At a news conference with Annan, Ismail said his government was "determined" to make this the final round of talks.
