SUDAN: LIFE SEEMS HARD IN REFUGEE CAMPS IN DARFUR, BUT MANY ARE FINDING WAYS AND MEANS OF IMPROVING THEIR INCOME

Record ID: 275290

  • Title: SUDAN: LIFE SEEMS HARD IN REFUGEE CAMPS IN DARFUR, BUT MANY ARE FINDING WAYS AND MEANS OF IMPROVING THEIR INCOME
  • Date: 15th April 2005
  • Summary: (W1) ABUSHOUK CAMP, NORTH DARFUR, SUDAN (APRIL 15, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV OF CAMP (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. SLV/SV VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SELLING FIREWOOD (4 SHOTS) 0.28 3. SLV/SV/MCU/CU OF WOOD SELLER READING KORAN (4 SHOTS) 0.43 4. SLV/SV MAN SELLING WATER MELONS (2 SHOTS) 0.52 5. SLV BOY WALKING IN CAMP 0.57 6. SLV
  • Embargoed: 30th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: ABUSHOUK CAMP, NORTH DARFUR, ELFASHER, SUDAN
  • Country: Sudan
  • Reuters ID: LVA5217OEZ6OO1W5RQC6VOXJRTNT
  • Story Text: Life seems hard in refugee camps in Darfur, but many
    are finding ways and means of improving their income. They
    have started small busineses.



    Life in Darfur seems hard. For a long time, all the
    refugees could do is sit in the camps with nothing to do.

    But now, in Abushouk camp in North Darfur, thousands of
    refugees have found different ways of generating income.

    Some are selling firewood at firewood markets on the edge
    of the camp.

    The camp, one of the best organized by the international
    community, contains roughly 80,000 people, more people are
    arriving all the time, providing business opportunities for
    communities already there.

    U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick expressed
    concern on Friday (April 15) that support for Sudan's
    Darfur region could ebb before refugees packed into teeming
    camps to escape violence could return home.

    Zoellick visited a refugee camp to underscore a revived
    U.S. strategy to press for an end to the conflict between
    Sudan's government and Darfur rebels that has killed tens
    of thousands of people and forced 2 million to flee their
    homes since 2003.

    More people were arriving all the time, officials and
    aid workers said.

    Zoellick welcomed the money pledged by donors in Oslo
    this week to help southern Sudan cement a peace deal ending
    a 20-year civil war, and urged a similar commitment to
    Darfur in the west of Sudan to end the conflict there.





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