SUDAN: REV JESSE JACKSON VISITS DARFUE REFUGEES

Record ID: 275252

  • Title: SUDAN: REV JESSE JACKSON VISITS DARFUE REFUGEES
  • Date: 27th August 2004
  • Summary: (U7)ABU SHOUK CAMP, DARFUR, SUDAN (AUGUST 27, 2004)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, REVEREND JESSE JACKSON, HELPING DISPLACED PEOPLE FETCH WATER 0.05 2. SLV OTHER DISPLACED PEOPLE WATCHING JACKSON 0.08 3. SLV JACKSON PETTING A DONKEY 0.12 4. SLV JACKSON HUGGING A CHILD 0.23 5. SLV CHILDREN 0.26
  • Embargoed: 11th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: ABU SHOUK CAMP, DARFUR, SUDAN
  • Country: Sudan
  • Reuters ID: LVAB57Q7UUE1OFTJKJU1Q9ZFBY08
  • Story Text: American civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson
    visited a refugee camp in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.



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    American civil rights activist the Reverend Jesse
    Jackson visited the troubled region of Darfur on Friday
    (August 27). The former U.S. presidential candidate is in
    Sudan to increase international pressure on the Sudanese
    government and African rebels to end their 18-month
    conflict that has killed nearly 50,000 people and driven
    more than a million more from their homes.

    He planned to tour the Abu Shouk camp on the outskirts
    of Al-Fasher, which is home to more than 43,000 displaced
    people. His visit came three days before a U.N. deadline
    for the Sudanese government to disarm Arab militiamen
    blamed for the Darfur violence or face possible sanctions.


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