Image Number: APN23449
Title: Darfur
Path:
Africa Media Online /
African Pictures /
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Description: The picture shows the now deserted village of Abu Shouk, 15km west of Kutum in North Darfur, Sudan on Monday June 1, 2004. Janjaweed militia burned approximately half of the houses in the village during an attack in January 2004.By mid 2004 in the Darfur region of western Sudan, ongoing conflict had displaced approximately 1.2 million people, most of whom were fleeing terror attacks by armed militia that included large-scale killings and abductions, including of children, as well as gang rapes, looting and burning of villages and stealing of livestock. Thousands have died from these attacks or from disease and tens of thousands of others have gathered in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), with little or no belongings and without adequate shelter, food or safe water and sanitation. An additional 120,000 people, primarily children and women, have fled across the border into neighbouring Chad. An estimated two million people have been affected by this crisis and are being fur
Collections: Independent Contributors
Subcollections:
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Country: Sudan
Location: El Fasher
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3008 x 2000
Media Id: 61_260
Credit: Christine Nesbitt Hills / Independent Contributors / Africa Media Online
Keywords:
third world,
poverty,
colour image ,
Africa,
diseases,
remote,
empty,
rural villages,
deserted,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No
