Image Number: APN23436
Title: Darfur
Path:
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Christine Nesbitt Hills
Description: The picture shows internally displaced children at school in the Kasab IDP camp near Kutum, North Darfur, Sudan on Monday June 1, 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 further threatened by the imminent rainy season which will hinder access and increase the risk of
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Country: Sudan
Location: El Fasher
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3008 x 2000
Media Id: 61_409
Credit: Christine Nesbitt Hills / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
Islam,
religion,
poverty,
third world,
colour image ,
Africa,
diseases,
remote,
traditional homesteads,
hunger,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No
