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Displaced Mother and Malnourished Child at a Refugee Camp in Kebkabiya, North Darfur
Violence flared in Darfur, in western Sudan, in 2003. The Sudanese government argued that separatists were threatening the stability of the region, and, by extension, the country. For Western governments, already at loggerheads with the Sudanese government, the assaults on citizens in the area by state-sponsored militias (the Janjaweed‚) indicated a racially motivated genocide, perpetrated by Arabs against black Africans. A long-standing and complex conflict between Baggara cattle herders and Fur pastoralists over resources in a fragile environment assumed clearly defined ethnic contours. The result was a human catastrophe, which continues.
Name: North Darfur Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Malnourished Child
Material: Digital Photograph
Size: 1,024 x 1,544 pixels (475 KB)
Date: September 27, 2005
Place of Origin: Work of a United States Agency for International Development employee, taken or made during the course of the person’s official duties; North Darfur, Africa
Location: Wikimedia Commons
Source and Registration#: Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource
(accessed May 7, 2010).
Original Caption: "Photo credit: USAID Caption: Kebkabiya IDP mother and 27 month old child: At a camp for IDPs in Kebkabiya, North Darfur, a mother holds her malnourished child."
Martin Stokes
Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford University
