The United States , a principal promoter of the accord , and the United Nations expressed the hope that the January signing would serve to speed peacemaking in Darfur , in Sudan 's west , where a campaign of ethnic cleansing by government-supported Arab militias has made refugees of as many as two million black African villagers and cost the lives of an estimated 300,000 people .
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