SUDAN: THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS FIGHTING IN SUDAN'S DARFUR REGION HAS DISPLACED A MILLION PEOPLE

Record ID: 337916

  • Title: SUDAN: THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS FIGHTING IN SUDAN'S DARFUR REGION HAS DISPLACED A MILLION PEOPLE
  • Date: 23rd May 2004
  • Summary: (EU) DARFUR, WESTERN SUDAN (MAY 23-24, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV LITTLE GIRL IN DISPLACED PEOPLE'S CAMP ON MAKESHIFT SWING AND SISTERS PLAYING IN SAND 0.08 2. CU LITTLE GIRL 0.19 3. LV NEWLY ARRIVED INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE IN CAMP 0.23 4. PAN OF SHELTERS 0.39 5. SLV MEN MAKING BED 0.47 6. SLV WOMAN AND MALNOURISHED CHILD EATING FROM AID RATION 0.51 7. PAN TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY SHOWING BURNS ON HIS LEGS 1.02 8. SLV DISPLACED PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND A WATER PUMP 1.07 9. SLV WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT A MAKESHIFT CAMP (2 SHOTS) 1.18 10. SLV MEN SEATING ON GROUND ON MAT 1.22 11. SLV DISPLACED WOMEN AND CHILDREN SITTING 1.28 12. SLV OF HUTS 1.35 13. SLV DISPLACED PEOPLE INSIDE SMALL HUT 1.40 14. MCU OF TWO OLD DISPLACED WOMEN INSIDE THEIR SHELTER 1.48 15. SV DISPLACED INSIDE HUT 1.54 16. MCU WOMAN CARRYING HER MALNOURISHED CHILD 1.59 17. SLV OF DISPLACED IN CAMP (4 SHOTS) 2.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: DARFUR, WESTERN SUDAN
  • Country: Sudan
  • Reuters ID: LVACG5HGNLIKV94SHYVCOFXNAPXW
  • Story Text: The United Nations says fighting in Sudan's Darfur
    region has displaced a million people and created one of
    the world's worst humanitarian crises.




    Villagers and rights groups accuse Khartoum of
    arming Arab militiamen, known as Janjaweed, to loot and
    burn African villages and fight a proxy war against rebels
    who launched a revolt last year demanding a fairer share of
    power and resources.

    The government denies the charge, calling the Janjaweed
    outlaws.

    The rebels signed a ceasefire with the government in
    early April, but have since accused it of several
    violations.

    The government recently said that Darfur was now stable
    and that security would be maintained by police.

    But many of those displaced from Darfur fear new
    attacks and are reluctant to return to their homes and
    fields, where they should now be planting crops ahead of
    approaching rains.

    The displaced people in makeshift dwellings now have to
    scratch out an existence on seed that should have been used
    for new crops.

    Aid workers also fear the spread of disease.

    Arab militiamen over the weekend killed at least 56
    people in a raid in western Sudan, just days after the
    government declared the troubled region was stable.

    The militiamen raided Abga Rajil village 50 kilometres
    (30 miles) south of Nyala town on Saturday, witnesses said.



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