White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday the US remains concerned about violence in Sudan's Darfur region.  

McClellan said the US is also concerned about the ability of humanitarian aid to flow freely to those displaced people in the region.

McClellan made the remarks after the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement signed a final comprehensive peace accord in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Sunday.

The spokesman said the US expects all parties in the Darfur region to live up their cease-fire commitments and to end the atrocities.

More than 70,000 people were reportedly killed in the violence or have died from hunger and disease in the area.

(CRI.com January 11, 2005)