Word: darfur
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...Some see politics playing more of a role in the case than Sarkozy's intervention on the reporters' behalf. Zoe's Ark's French lawyer has pointed out Chadian officials remain angered by a French-inspired plan to deploy European peacekeeping troops to eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees - an attitude he says may motivate what he considers a framing of the Zoe's Ark workers. Déby has denied that allegation, and promised the deployment will be carried out as planned. Despite that, international aid efforts in the region have been undermined by the caper - while...
...While more than 150,000 people live in squalid, sprawling camps around north Darfur's main town, shopkeepers are cashing in on the influx of aid workers with money to spend. A six-story shopping mall and office block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says...
...Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur is the world's largest humanitarian operation, with some 12,000 aid workers having been deployed here since rebels took up arms against the government more than four years ago. An estimated 200,000 people have died after Khartoum mobilized the Arab militias known as Janjaweed against villages believed to be supporting the uprising. Since then, the rebels and militias have fragmented and turned on one another. But the humanitarian agony continues for civilians prone to Janjaweed attack and for the 2.5 million people who have fled in fear for their lives...
...university close to the African Union base, "were just left empty. They were worth maybe $1,000 three or four years ago. Now the same ones are being bought for $15,000." All the retail space has been rented out in the new office block, which will become Darfur's tallest building on its completion...
...economics lecturer at the university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house to an AU officer and is building a second, which he hopes will push his rental earnings above his university salary. But he has mixed feelings about the overall impact of the boom on Darfur. "The per capita income has increased because many people are finding work with the [aid organizations] and the African Union or the United Nations, and then there is a knock-on effect of more purchases in the market," he says, sitting on the mud-brick wall around the land where...