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  • A girl displaced by war in the neighboring  Darfur region of Sudan on her way to school in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. A quarter million Darfur refugees live in camps in Chad. Another 2.3 million are internally displaced within Sudan, survivors of a campaign of ethnic cleansing sponsored by the Sudanese government.
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  • A displaced girl in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • Women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region put the finishing touches on a thatched roof, celebrating with song and dance as they go, in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • A camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A girl in the Jabaleen displaced camp near Garsila, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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  • Displaced women collect water at a combination deep well and 20,000 liter bladder provided by ACT-Caritas in the Ardabba IDP Camp near Garsila.
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  • Stacks of grain await distribution to war's victims in a World Food Organization facility in Garsila, in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
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  • A baby is weighed in a health center in the Hassahissa IDP Camp near Zalingei where displaced children's growth is closely monitored and their families provided with supplemental food.
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  • One of hundreds of burned villages in Sudan's Darfur region, the product of violence by government military forces and Arab militias against an insurgent force and the civilian population of the area.
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  • A woman weeps as she tells how her village was attacked by government-aligned militias in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • An Arab nomad travels in the Darfur region of Sudan. Historic tensions between Arab nomads and African farmers have worsened in recent years after the government in Khartoum armed Arab militias in order to strengthen their counterinsurgency campaign against regional rebels.
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  • African Union troops from Nigeria on patrol in the town of Labado, which was attacked by government military forces and Arab militias in December 2004, causing the town's 25,000 people to flee for their lives. The AU force was later absorbed into a larger UN force.
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  • An Arab man, with his camel, listening to news on the radio. Many Arabs in Darfur have grown weary of the alliance with the government, and several Arab militia leaders have broken from the government.
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  • A boys writes on the blackboard with encouragement from his teacher in a school in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons.
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  • A woman gets water in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region. ACT-Caritas is providing water and a variety of other services in this camp.
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  • Newly arrived victims of Darfur's conflict set up a shelter in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei.
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  • In a camp for the displaced near Bilel, families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence, and are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools, schools and pre-schools for their children, and health care. Mohammed Husain, 4, here sleeps under a blanket provided by ACT-Caritas.
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  • In a camp for the displaced near Bilel, families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence, and are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools, schools and pre-schools for their children, and health care. Salwa Husain Khalil, 14, here enjoys the warmth of a blanket provided by ACT-Caritas.
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  • Children at play in a camp near Bilel, where families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala, Darfur, treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A clinic run by the Catholic Church in Nyala treats displaced persons for skin diseases.
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  • A man in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • Girls scooping water from a hole they dug in the sand of a wadi in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur.
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  • A child in a camp for internally displaced people outside Kubum. More than 2.2 million IDPs are living in camps like this in the Darfur region.
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  • Children in camp for internally displaced people outside Kubum. More than 2.2 million IDPs are living in camps like this in the Darfur region.
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  • At a nutrition center in Kubum sponsored by ACT-Caritas, an expectant mother walks home with a supplemental food package that will help her baby get a healthy start on life.
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  • A displaced mother and child in the Dereig camp outside Nyala.
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  • A man writes out portions of the Koran in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • A boy prepares the soil next to his family's home for planting in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Daily life in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • A family in the Dereig Camp for internally displaced persons, one of many such settlements for people displaced by the violence in Darfur.
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  • Children living in the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons go to school in the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. They also eat their lunch there; this girl is reaching for a plate of food that she will share with several other children. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman works in her garden at the edge of the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman cooks a meal in her hut in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • A family displaced displaced by war in the neighboring  Darfur region of Sudan eat a meal in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. A quarter million Darfur refugees live in camps in Chad. Another 2.3 million are internally displaced within Sudan.
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  • A girl obtains water from a community well in the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • War's small victim: A young boy is comforted by his mother in a feeding center for malnourished children in the Aradib Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Goz Amer, Chad. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman prepares the ground beside her hut for planting in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A displaced woman near El Daein, in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A group of displaced women in the Salam IDP camp near Deleij, in the western Darfur region of Sudan..
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  • In a camp for the displaced outside Garsila, daily life goes on. The camp is in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A newly arrived resident of a displaced camp outside the Darfur village of Garsila constructs a shelter for his family.
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  • Children fly a kite in a camp for internally displaced families near Zalingei, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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  • A girl studies in a makeshift classroom in a camp for families displaced by the violence in Sudan's Darfur region. Girls have had few opportunities for formal education in many Darfuri communities, and while living in IDP camps are making up for lost time.
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  • A girl displaced by violence in Darfur.
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  • African Union troops from Nigeria on patrol in the town of Labado, which was attacked by government military forces and Arab militias in December 2004, causing the town's 25,000 people to flee for their lives. The AU force was later absorbed into a larger UN force.
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  • In the Darfur region of Sudan, the remnants of what were once thatched roof houses. This village was burned in an attack by pro-government Arab militias and Sudanese government troops.
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  • African Union troops from Nigeria on patrol in the town of Labado, which was attacked by government military forces and Arab militias in December 2004, causing the town's 25,000 people to flee for their lives.
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  • One of war's youngest victims--a baby in the Bilel camp for displaced persons.
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  • Eyes of a child displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • A woman living in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
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  • A girl in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei.
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  • A newly arrived family builds a shelter in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
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  • A ward for malnourished children in a hospital in Garsila. The children, all displaced by Darfur's ethnically-motivated violence, receive therapeutic feeding here.
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  • Children play outside their school in a camp near Bilel, where families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence.
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  • Two women on their way home from working their field at the edge of a displaced persons camp near Bilel, where families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence affecting the region. They are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools, schools and pre-schools for their children, and health care.
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  • Fatna lives in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbors have harvested from outside a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where international agencies are providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Fatna eats with her children in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur, where ACT-Caritas is providing water, sanitation and other emergency services.
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  • Inside her hut, Fatna cooks a meal for her family while cradling her smallest child in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • A girl in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur, a war-torn region of Sudan.
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  • A girl in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur, a war-torn region of Sudan.
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  • Women carry water home from a well in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur where an ecumenical coalition has provided wells and a variety of other services. While the Darfur Emergency Response Operation is focused primarily on responding to the needs of Darfur's internally displaced people, most of them Africans, it also is helping Arab villages, many of them host communities for displaced camps, as a contribution toward reconciliation and peace. The Darfur Emergency Response Operation is a joint effort of Caritas Internationalis, the Rome-based network of Catholic aid agencies, and Action by Churches Together (ACT), the Geneva-based Protestant relief network. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • A girl in Geles, an Arab village in Darfur, the violence-torn western region of Sudan. War have plagued this region since 2003, when the Arab government responded to insurgent attacks by pushing proxy Arab militias to attack African farming villages. Some 400,000 people have died and more than 2.5 million displaced.
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  • A boy at play in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A boy arranges bread loaves in preparation for baking in the Um Labassa Camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's wartorn Darfur province. Since 2003, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2,500,000 displaced by government-sanctioned violence against African farming communities in the region.
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  • In a primary health care and nutrition center sponsored by ACT-Caritas in Um Labassa, Darfur, a mother gives her malnourished baby Plumpy'Nut, a nutrition supplement.
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  • Children living in the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons go to school in the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • Women grind grain in the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman in the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A boy runs through the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A newly arrived resident builds her house in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman cooks a meal on an improved stove in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence. Such stoves are given to refugee women so that they'll consume less firewood, which means fewer trips outside the camp to forage for fuel, trips which frequently subject the women to assault and rape.
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  • A woman from Darfur cooks a meal in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • A girl displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan sells okra in the market of the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • A newly arrived man displaced by violence in Darfur builds a shelter for his family in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • A woman displaced by government-sanctioned violence in Darfur walks along a "street" in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • A woman displaced by violence in the Darfur region of Sudan now lives in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • Children in the Aradib Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Goz Amer, Chad, taking a bath near a community well. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A girl carries her sibling in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. Almost 200,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A woman living in the Aradib Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Goz Amer, Chad, carries firewood home to her family's hut. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government. Women who gather firewood are frequent targets for assault and rape by militias that lurk outside the camps.
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  • A girl carries water in the Habile Camp for internally displaced Chadians, located just outside the village of Koukou Angarana. Some 25,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • A young woman and her donkey in a camp for families displaced in the Darfur region of Sudan by fighting between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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  • Three women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region grind grain in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • Women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region put the finishing touches on a thatched roof, celebrating with song and dance as they go, in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • A displaced boy in the El Ferdous camp in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • Two children in the Darfur region of Sudan, displaced by government-sponsored ethnic conflict, sit in a displaced persons camp near a fire where there's no food to be cooked.
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  • A boy in an informal camp for families displaced by fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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  • An internally displaced woman receives a blanket and other supplies at a distribution point in a camp in Darfur. The supplies were provided by the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • A camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's Darfur region.
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  • A woman returning to her camp for the displaced after fetching firewood. According to relief workers and human rights groups, hundreds of women have been raped and several killed while hunting outside IDP camps for firewood. The ACT-Caritas program in Darfur trains women to build stoves that require less wood, thus reducing the number of trips the women make to obtain fuel.
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  • A boy watched a United Nations helicopter, which transports aid workers throughout Sudan's Darfur region, which has been plagued by violent conflict between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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  • A man spins thread in a community center in Jabaleen displaced persons camp near Garsila, Darfur, one of many income-generating activities at the center. .
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  • In the Ardabba IDP Camp near Garsila, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, ACT-Caritas provides primary health care -- including the services of Dr. Robert Lobor (center)-- to displaced families as well as members of the local host community.
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  • In the Ardabba displaced persons camp near Garsila, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, ACT/Caritas provides primary health care -- including the services of Dr. Robert Lobor -- to displaced families as well as members of the local host community. ..
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  • In the Ardabba displaced persons camp near Garsila, Darfur, ACT-Caritas provides primary health care to displaced families as well as members of the local host community. Yet there is often a wait to see the doctor.
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  • A malnourished child -- displaced by violence throughout the Darfur region of Sudan -- is cared for by his mother in a hospital in Garsila. Disease and malnutrition have taken a heavy toll among the Darfuris, displaced by fighting between government forces, Arab militias, and rebel soldiers.
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  • An African woman waits for water in a camp for displaced persons in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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  • Displaced people and the local host community work together, with help from ACT-Caritas, to build a new well near Deleij. Water is a critical resource in the Darfur region, and making it more available to all contributes to better relations between different social groups.
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