Wells of Life Run Dry for Sudanese
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As she had done every morning for a week, Mecka Ibrahim brought the lips of her howling infant to her breast, hoping the milk would flow again.
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LEAL, Sudan -- On this parched and dusty African plain, China's largest energy company is pumping crude oil, sending it 1,000 miles upcountry through a Chinese-made pipeline to the Red Sea, where tankers wait to ferry it to China's industrial cities. Chinese laborers based in a camp of prefabricated sheds work the wells and lay highways across the flats to ...
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The world continues to turn a deaf ear to the pleas for help from refugees in Sudan. As the noise of the US presidential election dominated the global stage, chaos and death continued to grip postwar Iraq
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The Christian Science Monitor - Three years after rebels from the farming tribes of Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, Sudan, the region is staring into the abyss once again.
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Sudanese government delegation walks away from the venue of the Sudanese peace talks on the Darfur crisis in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, Sept 4. The government of Sudan and the Sudanese rebel delegates are asking for more time to study the United Nations
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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BAHAI, Chad Under the wide arms of an acacia tree, Khadija Adam Ahmed, 47, chronicled her search for refuge: Sudanese soldiers stealing her 75 cows during an attack at the village well six weeks ago, then shooting at her foot to keep her from running, ...
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Las Vegas is having a hard time these days reconciling its big dreams with an unforgiving new fact of life: It is running out of water.
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Southern Africa faces major challenges to feed its swelling populations and to keep its wells from running dry, a study showed Wednesday.
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While the situation in the violence-torn Darfur region of Sudan becomes even more desperate for its residents, the parties with the power to ease this humanitarian crisis are making precious little progress.
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Israeli soldiers returning from the war in Lebanon say the army was slow to rescue wounded comrades and suffered from a lack of supplies so dire that they had to drink water from the canteens of dead Hezbollah guerrillas.
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A brief timeline of important events in the crisis in western Sudan.
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KHARTOUM, 17 October 2004 - Sudan yesterday questioned UN estimates that up to 70,000 people had died from hunger and disease in its remote Darfur region since a rebellion began 20 months ago.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization says that since March, at least 70,000 people in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur province have died because of poor conditions in camps for internally displaced people.
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Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder U.N. efforts to respond to one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, according to a survey of mortality rates by the United Nations' World Health Organization.
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KHAYELITSHA, South Africa -- The road in front of Princess Rini's leaky, wooden shack has been paved. There is a primary school and a library down the street. And though three of the outdoor taps the government built nearby are broken, a twist on the fourth brings forth copious clean water.
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There is little hope of peace in Sudan unless it addresses environmental damage, a UN study finds.