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Medair - Switzerland El Geneina - On 18 July, a massive rainstorm lasting for about four hours caused serious flooding in the IDP camp in Sisi, West Darfur.

Source: Reuters * Divisions over peace talks spark clashes in Darfur * At least eight killed in camp violence * Surge in violence underscores anarchy in Sudan's west By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM, July 29 ( ...

Source: Reuters * Darfur rebels accuse army of camp raid * Unrest in refugee camps over peace process * Army cannot confirm report of raid KHARTOUM, July 28 (Reuters) - Darfur rebels accused Sudan's army of ...

Source: IRIN Ongoing clashes between various armed groups in western Sudan have intensified since May, displacing 725 households from Jebel Mara to Hassa Hissa camp in Zalingei, West Darfur, aid workers said.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre As of May 2010, at least 4.9 million people are internally displaced in Darfur, the Greater Khartoum area, South Kordofan and the ten States of Southern Sudan, with unknown numbers of internally displaced people in the other northern and eastern States. They make up one of the two largest internally displaced populations in the world, alongside that of Colombia. Some people have been displaced for more than two decades, while others were newly displaced in 2009 and 2010.

Date: 19 May 2010
Source: AlertNet

Date: 19 May 2010
Source: Miraya FM

Source: Reuters * Security deteriorates after peace talks stalemate * Separate tribal clashes killed 107 since March (Recasts with refugees) KHARTOUM, May 12 (Reuters) - Hundreds of refugees have fled after ...

Date: 07 May 2010
Source: International Organization for Migration

Date: 03 May 2010
Source: UN-AU Mission in Darfur

Near-verbatim transcript of the press conference by Jill Helke, Representative ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
Since April 2009, IOM has been distributing essential life-saving non food items and emergency shelter materials throughout Darfur and Northern Sudan as ...

DanChurchAid - Denmark Derieg camp was and is Fiza’s safe haven since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed 5 years ago. The noise and clutter of the 40.000 IDPs here is nothing compared to the fear of attack, rape or death. Here she can earn money as a tailor, drink tea in the afternoon with her friends at the women’s community center and sleep safe.

Source: ECHO Continued conflict and banditry in southern Darfur has left hundreds of thousands of people, who want to return home, in limbo. Five years ago, Seleah - 80 kilometres from the provincial capital, Nyala - was a village of around 6,000 inhabitants. Today, the population is four times higher.

Almost exactly a month ago, we were expelled from Darfur. Since then we have spent most days trying to get in touch with friends and colleagues there, hoping to find out what is happening in the communities which we had to leave behind. The reports we are getting from the camps are increasingly alarming.

Over the past six years, people living in the camps have been bombed, raped, robbed and forced from their homes. They have been through suffering that I cannot even imagine, and have had to rely on aid agencies for basics like food, water and shelter. Now even that is being taken from them.

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Source: AlertNet

Source: Reuters KHARTOUM, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At least 30,000 people have fled their homes in South Darfur state in western Sudan in recent days because of fighting between rebels and government forces, the United ...

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Latest report on ICRC activities in the field

Source: IRIN Adam, who prefers to be known by this one name, is an internally displaced person (IDP) in an IDP camp in Zamzam, North Darfur. He fled there from his village of Um Hashaba in the same province in 2003, hoping finally to find safety. But last month, even this sanctuary was violated.

Source: IRIN As Sudan lobbies the international community for support in its fight to ward off looming charges of genocide against its president, arguing they would endanger the "great strides" the government is making towards peace, people displaced by more than five years of fighting in Darfur tell a different story.

Source: Reuters (Updates with U.N. revising down the number of displaced) By Alaa Shahine KHARTOUM, Oct 18 (Reuters) - An increase in violence in North Darfur last month has displaced at least 40,000 people, many ...