Mental Scars of the Sudan Refugee Crisis
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Description: NPR&#39;s Jason Beaubien reports on Sudanese refugees suffering from mental illness. Many of Sudanese refugees say that people have gone crazy because of the horrors they witnessed at the hands of Islamic militias. Being mentally ill in much of ...
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While not directly calling the crisis in Darfur a genocide, the US State Department has said that interviews with Sudanese refugees indicated attacks against the regions&#39; black Africans appeared to be racially motivated.
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Many report being newly alone, disoriented by the refugee camps, and deeply longing for home.
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Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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people out of camps they had fled to in Darfur, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says. The incident in the camps involved several thousand refugees among some 20,000 homeless people near Nyala in South Darfur.
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same mistake in the country&#39;s east, where tensions are rising along the border with Eritrea. crises. The United States has called the violence in Darfur genocide.
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18  - The toll of homeless in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, where marauding Arab militiamen are driving African villagers off their land in the world&#39;s worst humanitarian crisis, has risen to 1.2 million, the United Nations said on ...
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2 November 2004 - Security breaches have been increasing in the camps housing Sudan&#39;s Darfur refugees and internally displaced people on both sides of the Sudanese-Chadian border, the United Nations said today.
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The world was astounded when Secretary of State Colin Powell labeled the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, as genocide. While the United States elevated what the United Nations referred
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On my last visit to the Darfur area in Sudan, in June, I found a man groaning under a tree. He had been shot in the neck and jaw and left for dead in a pile of corpses.
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The experience of Ibrahim Mohamed Doud and his two wives, one African and one Arab, illustrates the tangled ethnicity of Darfur, the scene of the violent displacement of 1.5 million people.
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A State Department report detailing atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan concludes that the Sudanese government has promoted systematic killings based on race and ethnic origin, but officials said Tuesday that there was strong debate over whether Secretary of State Colin L. Powell should classify the violence as genocide.
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DARFUR, Sudan: Khadijah Mohammed Ali Ardamatta, a resident of the Ardamatta camp in West Darfur, removed her shawl to show a deep wound in her chest sustained when Arab militias attacked her in February in her village of Noury.
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The Christian Science Monitor - For the past three years, Arab militiamen have helped Sudan's government quell a rebellion in Darfur by slaughtering the region's mostly black African population and leaving behind a trail of rape, murder, and destruction. The result: more than 200,000 dead and 2 million displaced in what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian emergency.
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NAIROBI As concern has continued to grow around the world at the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the western Darfur region of Sudan, the stream of high-profile visitors to Sudan over the past few months has been accompanied by increasingly angry language from
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BARR REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda  - Walter Emodo shudders as he recalls the day Ugandan rebels attacked his village two years ago, killing his younger brother and changing his formerly peaceful childhood forever.
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In this article, we highlight some of the methodological issues that arise when conducting research into the prevalence of deliberate self-harm. We provide an overview of the literature, focusing on gender ...