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Fri 12 Dec 2006Goal withdraws Darfur staffThe aid agency Goal is to withdraw its remaining international staff from Darfur because of the deteriorating security situation in the Sudanese region.In a statement, Goal said today the situation had forced it to withdraw all remaining international staff from Darfur after three years of work providing humanitarian relief to 220,000 war victims.