Sam Ounja refugee camp in Central African Republic •             I would argue that Darfuri refugees in Central Africa Republic are the world’s most forgotten people; they have had no humanitarian assistance for four years.  A recent dispatch from Radio Dabanga provides grim details: Insecurity, lack of aid kill Darfur […]

    A sheikh in eastern Chad, pleading humbly that his people not be forgotten (2006); eight years later, it appears an increasingly vain wish (photograph by Jerry Fowler, Director of the Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)  

  There are countless orphans in Darfur and eastern Chad; their future is terribly grim

  Conditions in Oure Cassoni refugee camp, northernmost of the twelve major camps in eastern Chad

A solitary woman, a refugee at risk in eastern Chad (photograph by Mia Farrow)

Khartoum is accelerating its aerial attacks on civilians in both South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.  While the mainstay of the air force remains crude Antonov “bombers” (retrofitted cargo planes that are highly inaccurate, and useless for real military purposes), there has been significantly greater deployment of the Sukhoi 24, a modern, accurate air-to-ground military […]

“THE GENOCIDE FAX” from UNAMIR Commander Romeo Dallaire, 11 January 1994: the key portion of what was sent to UN headquarters in New York, where Kofi Annan was head of UN peacekeeping operations, including the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR):

Cholera is a dangerous new threat to South Sudan.  Highly contagious, alarmingly deadly if untreated, cholera finds a natural environment in crowded city such as Juba during the rainy season; more than 1,000 cases and 27 deaths have been reported.  Yei, Kajo Keji in Central Equatoria and Kaka in Upper Nile have also reported cases.

With timely treatment and clean water, lives can almost always be saved; but clean water is an increasingly precious commodity in South Sudan, and sanitary conditions will deteriorate badly in many locations with the annual rains.  In the absence of humanitarian access, the disease will soon kill large numbers of people.

The key to treatment is rapid, sustained hydration