Word: darfur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard report, oil exports are “a crucial source of revenue for the Sudanese government, essential to the government’s capacity to fund military operations.” In the past four years, those military operations have targeted innocent villagers in the Darfur region, directly and indirectly causing more than 200,000 deaths, according to U.N. estimates...
Peter N. Ganong ’09 is an economics concentrator in Adams House and a member of the Harvard Darfur Action Group. Daniel J. Hemel ’07, former managing editor of The Crimson, is studying international relations at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship...
...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...