Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Who are the people that have burned down all the villages in Darfur called?

Villages in Darfur


A lot of the villages in Darfur have either been damaged or destroyed because of the Jangaweed and the Sudanese government. There have been more than 2,000 villages attacked in Darfur which have caused people to go through a difficult life and most of them have been struggling to live. Although a lot of people are having a hard time living in Darfur, most of them have a hard time leaving their homes and villages, thinking they have no other place to go.

Darfur issues


  • In September of 2004, there had been an estimated amount of 50,000 deaths according to the World Health Organization, mostly due to starvation.
  • In October 2004 the UN News Centre reported that no women or girl is safe in Darfur due to rape and sexual assaults. Pamela Shifman, an adviser for the UN Centre, also reported that she heard dozens of horrowing accounts of sexual assaults and including lots of reports for gang- rapes.
  • Since the war had broke out in 2003 and until now, there has been an estimated amount of 400,000 people that have died.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Darfur Stats


The war in Darfur has been going on since Feburary 26th, 2003 and it's still going on today! After only 5 years an estimate 200,000 have died and 2 and a half million have lost their homes. Most of the reasons why the war in Darfur started in the first place was mainly because of drought, desertification, and overpopulation.