Darfur
Over the course of three years of conflict an estimated 2.2 million* people have fled their homes in the province of Darfur in western Sudan. A further estimated 200,000 people have been killed. Civilians are fleeing in response to a campaign of terror, including indiscriminate shootings, rape and burning of villages.
* UNHCR, 2007
Darfur: In Pictures
The photographs and stories from inside the internal displacement camps of Darfur... [read more]
HEA Sudan Darfur Headers (Resources)
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Khadija is a recent arrival at the Otash camp for people displaced in the fighting in Darfur. She is taking care of 12 orphans along with six children of her own. The parents of the 12 orphans were killed in the fighting across the region... [read more] -
It was the second attack on their village in the span of five months. The first raid by camel-riding armed militia robbed the village of 13 men and left many more injured. This second time, many were forced to flee the village to survive... [read more]
