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Allafrica.com: United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (El Fasher) Sudan: Ardamata IDPs Report Harassment, Seizure of Farmland

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Leaders in Ardamata IDP camp, near El Geneina, West Darfur, have approached UNAMID with reports that a number of residents who left the camps to cultivate crops on their lands were harassed by armed men.

IDPs claimed that they were physically assaulted in four locations less than 10 kilometers outside El Geneina. The armed men reportedly destroyed the seedlings and replanted the farmlands, having claimed them as their own.

With the beginning of the rainy season this month, IDPs all over Darfur have received seeds and farm tools and many felt safe enough to leave the camps regularly to farm their lands. UNAMID brought the matter to the attention of local authorities and will meet with them about helping to prevent similar incidents in the future in order to encourage IDPs to voluntarily return to their regions.

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Ynet: Darfur teen to visit Auschwitz

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Muhammad, who escaped Sudan genocide and found shelter in Israel, to travel to Nazi concentration camp with his classmates. ‘Studying about your Holocaust helps me connect to my own holocaust,’ he tells his friends

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voa: Aid Agencies Curtail Operations in Darfur

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

An increase in attacks against humanitarian workers is forcing aid agencies to curtail efforts in Darfur. According to the United Nations, the deteriorating security situation is making it extremely difficult to operate.

A statement released by the United Nations Thursday expressed concern over increasingly dangerous conditions for humanitarian workers in the Darfur region of Sudan. According to the release, the violence has significantly limited and in some cases shut down humanitarian access to regions in serious need of aid.

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Gulftimes: QRCS to expand its projects in Darfur

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has decided to expand its projects and humanitarian work in Darfur, Sudan, where most refugees from the region and the neighbouring Chad are settling.
The QRCS said in a statement that it will focus on Western Darfur to fill the lack of humanitarian organisations and has allocated QR5.7mn for this purpose for the next two years.
The organisation has received QR2mn as emergency financial support from the Qatar government.
The QRCS was among the first Arab humanitarian organisations helping out in Darfur since the crisis began in 2003.

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VOA: Withdrawal of UN Peacekeepers in Chad Sparks Fear for Refugees’ Safety

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Amnesty International warns that the impending withdrawal of U.N. peacekeeping troops from eastern Chad could put the safety of thousands of refugees and other vulnerable populations at risk.

The U.N. Security Council’s decision in late May to withdraw some 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers from eastern Chad has sparked concern for the safety of almost half a million refugees and internally displaced persons living in the region.

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Guardian UK; Darfur conflict: ‘We are in the hands of God’

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Abbas Mansour Ibrahim is leader of the Birak region in the far east of Chad, close to the border with Sudan. He has seen his community safely through the political upheavals of the past 40 years but is uneasy at the escalation of violence and insecurity as refugees from the war in Darfur and armed rebels of all persuasions flow into his land

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AOL New: Racial Riots against Uzbeks worst in 20 years

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (June 13) — Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages, slaughtered their residents and looted police stations Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending more than 75,000 Uzbek refugees fleeing across the border into Uzbekistan.

Most of the Uzbek refugees were elderly people, women and children, and many had gunshot wounds, the Uzbek Emergencies Ministry said in a statement carried by Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. It said refugee camps were being set up for them in several areas of Uzbekistan.

Fires set by rioters have destroyed most of Osh, the country’s second-largest city, and food was scarce after widespread looting. Triumphant crowds of Kyrgyz men took control of most of Osh on Sunday as the few Uzbeks still left in the city of 250,000 barricaded themselves in their neighborhoods.

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BBC: Refugee fear after UN forced to leave Chad and CAR

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

Services for refugees could be hit when UN peacekeepers leave Chad later this year, the UNHCR says.

A spokesman for the UN refugee agency told the BBC that he “regretted” the decision to withdraw the peacekeepers from Chad and Central African Republic.

The 4,375-strong force is to pull out in stages by the end of 2010.

It was deployed in 2009 to protect hundreds of thousands of displaced Chadians and refugees from the Sudanese province of Darfur.

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Relief Web: Authorities still tracking down abductors of 3 aid workers in Darfur

Monday, May 24th, 2010


The Federal Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Abdel Baqi Al Jilani, has said that security authorities in Darfur are tracking down abductors of the three aid workers in Wad Ajoura area, Southern Darfur State. Speaking to Radio Miraya, Jilani said that the abduction is motivated by ransom, and further described the culprits as gangsters.

He further urged the international organizations to take precautionary measures while on mission outside big towns.

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Dawn Media: Internal displacement at highest level since mid-1990s

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Tuesday, 18 May, 2010

Sudanese refugees wait to collect water supplies at a water station in Zamzam refugee camp on the outskirts of the Darfur town. Sudan has the highest number of internally displaced people that is nearly 5 million. –Photo by AP

UNITED NATIONS: More than 27 million people were uprooted by violence within their countries, including Pakistan, in 2009, the highest number since the mid-1990s, according to a new UN-backed study, reports APP.

The six countries listed in the report with the largest IDP populations are: Sudan, with nearly 5 million; Colombia, with between 3.3 and 4.9 million; Iraq, with almost 2.8 million; the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with nearly 2 million; Somalia, with 1.5 million; and Pakistan, with 1.2 million.

Africa is the region witnessing the greatest volume of internal displacement, with a total of 11.6 million IDPs in 21 countries, while South and South-East Asia saw the biggest jump in numbers of IDPs from 3.5 million in 2008 to 4.3 million in 2009.

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