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Darfur: ten years of service

War broke out in Sudan’s Darfur region in 2003. It has remained one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises over the last decade. At least 3.4 million people in Darfur need humanitarian assistance today, a figure which includes 1.4 million displaced people (IDPs) in camps receiving food aid. Life is difficult in the camps, but ...

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A Decade in Darfur: Mothers and Children at Risk

A Decade in Darfur: Mothers and Children at Risk

With thousands of others, Nawal escaped to one of Sudan’s camps for displaced people. They were safer there, but could no longer earn a living by farming. Some camp residents do tasks like brickmaking, making enough money to buy the day’s kilo or two of grain.

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A decade in Darfur: Call me Actcaritas

A decade in Darfur: Call me Actcaritas

Seldom has a joint programme between aid agencies made such a personal impression on an employee, but the partnership of ACT Alliance and Caritas—Protestants and Catholics helping Darfur–struck a cord with an aid worker in the region. Here, he describes why he likes his nickname. My real first name is Abakar. But everyone calls me ...

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A decade in Darfur: challenges and progress

A decade in Darfur: challenges and progress

By Laura Sheahen “When we first came here, we were getting water from the valley, seven kilometers away.” Muhammad is a long-time resident of a camp in Darfur for people who fled violence. He remembers what it was like nearly a decade ago, when thousands of desperate people first arrived. “Farmers were settled closer to ...

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South Sudan one year on

South Sudan one year on

South Sudan became the world’s newest nation on 9 July 2011. Twelve months later, we celebrate the achievements of the people and churches of South Sudan and of Caritas South Sudan and its Caritas partners in working towards peace and development. The challenge has been huge. South Sudan has started life as one of the ...

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In pictures: Conflict in the Sudans

In early summer 2011, violence erupted on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. In the town of Abyei, families left everything behind them as they ran to escape aerial attacks, shooting, and house-burnings. Caritas members immediately began helping families who walked miles to safer areas. In a place called Agok, Caritas has worked with ...

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Caritas helping stranded South Sudanese return home

Caritas helping stranded South Sudanese return home

Caritas staff and volunteers have been working flat out all over South Sudan to prepare for the return of refugees from north Sudan. In Juba, between 12-15,0000 returnees stranded in Kosti in the White Nile State in north Sudan are expected to arrive over the next few weeks by plane. The governor of White Nile ...

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A dream of peace justce and freedom for South Sudan

A dream of peace justce and freedom for South Sudan

MEETING OF THE EPISCOPAL AND CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF SOUTH SUDAN “WE HAVE A DREAM OF PEACE, JUSTICE AND FREEDOM” Blessed are the peacemakers; they shall be recognised as children of God (Matthew 5:9) [YEI, SOUTH SUDAN, 11th MAY 2012]: Fourteen bishops representing the Catholic and Episcopal Churches of South Sudan, led by Archbishop Paulino Lukudu ...

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Crisis in South Sudan and Sudan

Crisis in South Sudan and Sudan

People in Sudan and South Sudan face a humanitarian crisis if the two countries continue along the path to war. Months of clashes have intensified in recent weeks bringing the two civil war adversaries close to all out conflict. Caritas says that only peaceful negotiation between the two sides can resolve their disputes, while a ...

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Sudan and South Sudan must step back from war

Sudan and South Sudan must step back from war

Caritas Internationalis fears that a full scale war is imminent between Sudan and South Sudan with dire humanitarian consequences for both unless there is pull back from further military action. South Sudan became independent from Sudan last July following a popular vote. It was the culmination of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended decades ...

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