In prehistoric times the northern inhabitants of Darfur were related to the predynastic peoples of the Nile River valley. From roughly 2500 bce Darfur was probably within the sphere of the Egyptian caravans that traded southward from Aswān.
I first came to Sudan’s Darfur region over 2 decades ago, when the world was just beginning to grasp the scale of the 1st war. I remember the dust, the long drives between settlements, the resilience of people who had already lost too much. Back then, the violence felt both immediate and incomprehensible - villages burnt to the ground, testimonies of mass killings and rape of civilians. I ...
Sudan's army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.
Sudan war: Is Darfur on the brink of another genocide and will the ...
WRAL: Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22
CAIRO (AP) — Famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday as an attack by paramilitary forces on a military hospital in ...
Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22
The Guardian: Hunger, bribery and ruin: Darfur after three years of Sudan’s civil war – in pictures
As the civil war enters its fourth year, aid worker and photographer Jérome Tubiana captured images of daily life for approximately 600,000 people displaced by the fighting who have gathered at the to ...