New York: The fact finding mission of the UNHuman Rights Council mandated to study the situation in conflict-ridden Darfurregion of Sudanhas called off their planned visit to the country after failing to obtain visa.

The five-member high level team, now in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, said they would visitsome locations near the Sudanese border to gather information.

The team, headed by Jody Williams who won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for herwork campaigning against landmines, will return to Geneva to write its report which will bepresented to the UN in March.

More than 200,000 people have died and two million rendered homeless inpoverty-ridden and resource scare Darfur whererebels demanding autonomy are battling the government forces and Janjaweed Arabmilitias since 2003.

The militias are alleged to have committed mass murders, raped thousands ofwomen and burnt villages and crops of Africans who inhabit the region.

Around four million people now survive on humanitarian aid in what the UnitedNations describes as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

Apart from Williams,other members of the mission include Mart Nutt, an Estonian parliamentarian andmember of the Council of Europe's European Commission.

 Against Racism andIntolerance, Bertrand Ramcharan, the former Acting and Deputy UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights. The members are serving in their personalcapacity.

Before leaving on the mission, Williams told reporters that the team wanted tocome up with recommendations that we hope are implementable [and] not justgrand thoughts.