US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the world has failed the people of Darfur, ahead of a Paris summit on the troubled Sudanese region.
"I will be very frank. I do not think that the international community has really lived up to its responsibilities here," Ms Rice said.
Some 200,000 people have died and 2.4m fled the violence in Darfur since 2003.
The US, France, China and Egypt will attend the meeting, but not Sudan nor representatives from rebel factions.
Much of the violence has been linked to clashes between government-sponsored Janjaweed militias and Darfur's rebel groups.
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