Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Darfur: Displaced again and again

By Charlotte Brudenell, ACT-Caritas field communicator

In recent months, following attacks by armed militias in Chad, hundreds of refugees from Darfur have fled back across the border into Sudan. Too afraid of the militias to return to their villages, they are sheltering in the town of Juguma.

By Charlotte Brudenell, ACT-Caritas field communicator

Juguma, West Darfur, August 30, 2006--Twenty kilometers from the Chadian border, the town of Juguma is like a pregnant woman; it provides and protects and has somewhat expanded. There is no official camp for displaced people, but nearly half the population is providing a home to other families, with sometimes up to five or six families in the same home. Read more >>>

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