Darfur: On the Ground
African Union’s inaugural peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan has made a difference amid the genocide. But as violence worsens, the lack of funds is threatening to downsize the already small force.
African Union’s inaugural peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan has made a difference amid the genocide. But as violence worsens, the lack of funds is threatening to downsize the already small force.
The photographs presented here capture the lives of people in the Darfur region, the look of the countryside, and the challenges faced by African Union soldiers and police.
The photographs presented here capture the lives of people in the Darfur region, the look of the countryside, and the challenges faced by African Union soldiers and police.
The photographs presented here capture the lives of people in the Darfur region, the look of the countryside, and the challenges faced by African Union soldiers and police.
Rebel commander Peter Malueth points with pride to his recent victories in repulsing attacks on four villages in this region.
The wild card in Sudan's civil war is a "lake of oil" that happens to ooze just beneath the surface of some of the most contested real estate on the face of the earth.
In a makeshift camp of some 2,000 refugees fleeing one of the most recent spasms of violence in Sudan's long civil war, a baby born Tuesday morning may face the bleakest prospects of all.
For 13 years, families have clung to the squatter camp of Shikla, a place where toddlers suck on hypodermic needles they fish out of stagnant pools of sewage and trash.
For a society like Sudan's,which is officially committed to restricting women's rights, the Ahfad University for Women is nothing but trouble.
The oversized man in the camouflage fatigues, the guerrilla leader with a big say in whether Sudanends a brutal war, interrupts a midnight interview to put a football question to an American journalist:
If peace comes to Sudan,perhaps children like Awein Mayan will get help in time.
If they put on rallies like this back home, John Danforth might still be in politics.