Title: Darfur
Image Number: APN23466
Media Id: 61_168
Path:
african.pictures /
Independent Photographers /
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Description: Pictures taken on June 5, 2004 in Alamal School in Nyala, capital of South Darfur, Sudan, show a campaign in the Darfur region to vaccinate 2.26 million children against measles. UNICEF, together with the Sudanese Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other groups, is participating in the campaign. Children under the age of five are also being given vitamin A supplements. 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 peopl
Collections: Independent Photographers
Subcollections:
Christine Nesbitt Hills
Country: Sudan
Location: El Fasher
Orientation: landscape
Pixel Size: 2881 x 1943
Credit: Christine Nesbitt Hills / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
Keywords:
black African children,
diseases,
Sudan,
third world,
Africa,
colour image ,
poverty,
rural villages,
traditional dress,
run down,
Darfur,
malnutrition,
starvation,
vaccinations,
,
Model Release: No
Property Release: No