Title: Darfur
Image Number: APN23950
Media Id: 61_305
Path:
african.pictures /
Independent Photographers /
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Description: The pictures show a young boy making toy cars from old broken rubber sandals (flipflops) in Abu Shouk IDP camp near El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan on Sunday May 30, 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 h
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Country: Sudan
Location: El Fasher
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 3008 x 2000
Credit: Christine Nesbitt Hills / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
Africa,
Sudan,
Darfur,
colour image ,
camps,
camps (displaced),
conflict,
toys,
black African boy,
poverty,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No
