refugee women are collecting water on donkeys. Muhajaria, darfur, sudan.
Since Feb 2003, a vicious war is raging in Darfur, west Sudan. The Arab nomadic tribes, armed and paid by the government of Sudan have attacked most villages inhabited by Black African tribes. The reason for conflict is simple: The African tribes feel marginalized by the government and despite huge oil revenues earned by the government in South Sudan, not one dinar is reinvested by the government in Darfur in education, health, agriculture or infra structure. Hence, African tribes have started 2 armed rebellion against the government; the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA). But they have not been very successful so far.

The Government, in its turn has subcontracted the Arabs living in this area to ‘clean’ up the rebellion and make sure the civilians are not able to provide any support to the rebels anymore. The Arabs, also called Janjaweed or ‘devil on horseback’ have burned over 50,000 houses of the African tribe, killed over 70,000 people and chased the entire population of 2 million people across the border to Chad or to the main towns in Darfur. It is there where the general population are kept imprisonment over the last year. They are guarded by the perpetrators, those who burned their villages in the first place. The displaced people lack food, water, health care, safety and are completely aid dependent.