Image Number: APN107203
Title: Darfur
Path:
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Independent Photographers /
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Description: The picture shows internally displaced children leavinng their shelter and going to 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 hinde
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Country: Sudan
Location: El Fasher
Orientation: portrait
Pixel Size: 2000 x 3008
Media Id: 61_629
Credit: Christine Nesbitt Hills / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
conflict,
black African children,
Displacement,
Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp,
hunger,
Sudan,
vertical,
Africa,
Darfur,
colour image ,
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Model Release: No
Property Release: No