DOHA (Reuters) - Donor countries committed $3.6 billion (2.3 billion pounds) to Sudan's Darfur region to be paid over six years during a donor conference on Monday hosted in Qatar aimed at helping it cope with an armed conflict that has killed thousands.
Despite $2.6 billion already committed by the Sudanese government, the pledges still fell short of the $7.2 billion the United Nations had hoped to raise, Ali al-Zatari, representative of the U.N. secretary-general said.
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