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Sudan the largest country in Africa lies
where the Sahara Desert meets the
grasslands of the Sahel
since its independence in 1956 civil
wars between Sudan’s North and South
have killed millions and displaced
millions more now a new conflict has
emerged in its westernmost region called
Darfur
nearly the size of France this vast
region has been neglected for years by
the government
Darfur means land of the for a Muslim
African tribe indigenous to the area the
region is inhabited by many tribes that
are racially and culturally intertwine
but despite these cultural similarities
groups of farmers who are viewed as
African and groups of herders who are
considered Arab have had clashes over
the land for decades
droughts famines desertification and
population pressures have added to the
rising tensions since 2003 rebel groups
have fought against the government
accusing it of supporting the arab
herders over the african farmers the
government’s response caused a mass
exodus forcing villagers to become
refugees in their own homeland in this
United Nations refugee camp along the
Chad Sudan border the women and children
here seek asylum from the Janjaweed the
armed militias of Arab herders organized
by the government to fight the rebels
and kill civilians entire villages have
been burned hundreds of thousands have
died beatings rapes and mutilations are
used as weapons of terror
around two million people almost a third
of Darfur s population have fled their
villages these refugees have lost
everything
but they are the lucky ones most still
wander the land unable to go home their
lives still at risk despite
international pressure the fighting
still continues and in Darfur the people
are still dying
[Music]
Sudan the largest country in Africa lies
where the Sahara Desert meets the
grasslands of the Sahel
since its independence in 1956 civil
wars between Sudan’s North and South
have killed millions and displaced
millions more now a new conflict has
emerged in its westernmost region called
Darfur
nearly the size of France this vast
region has been neglected for years by
the government
Darfur means land of the for a Muslim
African tribe indigenous to the area the
region is inhabited by many tribes that
are racially and culturally intertwine
but despite these cultural similarities
groups of farmers who are viewed as
African and groups of herders who are
considered Arab have had clashes over
the land for decades
droughts famines desertification and
population pressures have added to the
rising tensions since 2003 rebel groups
have fought against the government
accusing it of supporting the arab
herders over the african farmers the
government’s response caused a mass
exodus forcing villagers to become
refugees in their own homeland in this
United Nations refugee camp along the
Chad Sudan border the women and children
here seek asylum from the Janjaweed the
armed militias of Arab herders organized
by the government to fight the rebels
and kill civilians entire villages have
been burned hundreds of thousands have
died beatings rapes and mutilations are
used as weapons of terror
around two million people almost a third
of Darfur s population have fled their
villages these refugees have lost
everything
but they are the lucky ones most still
wander the land unable to go home their
lives still at risk despite
international pressure the fighting
still continues and in Darfur the people
are still dying
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