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WG7 - Africa: Darfur, Sudan - Crisis (Genocide)

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Questions

Where is this occurring (country city, region, ...) ?
Who is involved (groups)?
What happened or is happening and Why?
When did it happen? Is it still going on?

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Cultures of the World eBooks
eBooks available for Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Somalia, and Sudan.

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Sources

Regarding Dafur, Sudan Crisis:

Mar. 18, 2025. New York Times - U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Violence and Famine in Darfur
Apr. 29, 2024. Christian Science Monitor - As genocide threatens again, the world wakes up to Sudan’s civil war
Dec. 14, 2023. United Nations UN News - Explainer: How Darfur became a ‘humanitarian calamity and catastrophic human rights crisis’
Jun. 30, 2023. Al Jazeera - Between Two Wars, 20 years of conflict in Sudan : Twenty years of conflict in Sudan, from Darfur to Khartoum and back.
Feb. 23, 2010. BBC - Q&A: Sudan's Darfur Conflict.

Regarding U.S. Aid Freeze:

Feb. 4, 2025. CNN - How the US foreign aid freeze is intensifying humanitarian crises across the globe
Feb. 4, 2025. Washington Post - Fear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in Africa