Sick of promises

The conflict in this western region of Sudan is explained away by the Sudanese Government as a spot of local bother: ancient rivalries and competition for resources, exacerbated by drought and famine, have led nomadic Arab herders to start driving black African farmers off their land.
In reality, Darfur is no local ethnic conflagration – though underlying tensions, historically dealt with at community level and sharpened by climate change, have certainly been inflamed and exaggerated.

‘My baby boy was thrown on the fire in front of me. My daughter was older. They thought she was a boy so they slaughtered her too’

The bloodshed began in 2003 when Darfurian rebel groups took up arms against the Government.

Jess Worth

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