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Darfur

  Highlights of UN resolution on troops for Darfur
The UN Security Council approved a resolution on Tuesday to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police for Sudan ’s western region of Darfur . The new UN operation is known as UNAMID, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur.  ...
  Darfur: Living with the threat of rape
The convoy of African Union trucks was driving up a hillside overlooking a small valley near Otash in South Darfur State, western Sudan, when the two women gathering firewood spotted the vehicles and instinctively took to their heels. In response,...
  20 February: More displacement amid continuing violence in Darfur
Several thousand Sudanese civilians who were forced to flee their villages after fighting broke out between the Targem and Reziegat Maharia communities in South Darfur have moved to Kass town, where humanitarian agencies have started assisting them,...
  16 October: Newly displaced yearn for peace in Darfur
They walked for two days and one night through the desert, fleeing an attack on Hilla Babikir and surrounding villages. ”When the attack took place, we just ran. I don’t know what happened to the people we left behind,” Ishac, a community leader, said....