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Karen Shim
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the Sudan crisis
August 3, 2004 - 12:23 PM
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Despite heavy rains, the lack of adequate water is the greatest constraint to helping refugees in Chad. The UN Refugee Agency has reported a just-completed survey using new technology to find hidden water sources in eastern Chad that may help alleviate the dire water shortages.
With over 142,000 Sudanese refugees relocated to UN camps, and more on their way, is it too little too late?
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Robert Sibley
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Crisis in Sudan
August 12, 2004 - 10:07 AM
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And of course water is only one of the critical issues these sudanese refugees face. Sanatation in the camps is totally inadaquate (and beginning to cause desease) , and food and medical aid are scarce. Unless significant additional aid and help is brought in in the next month or two many of these people, especially the children,, will not survive. It is not now too late for many (though it is certainly too late for some), but the tipping point is comming very soon.
What should we do?
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Re: the Sudan crisis
August 12, 2004 - 10:33 AM
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Its all too little too late.
I am looking at the international uproar over Iraq - and intervention is tough.
But Canada - the US etc should have intervened a while ago - before it got to this point.
And frankly The Arab Legue should do something to censor their own members who do things like this. It is disheartening to see Arabs do nothing to reel in their own.
As far as what can be done - frankly Kerry will deal with this issue much more than Bush - Bush's next target is Iran - Kerry will probably increase the presure on the Sudanese.
The militia's have to go!
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Re: the Sudan crisis
August 13, 2004 - 11:06 AM
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Luke,
You make a very good point that the Arab contires in the region have a significant political responsibility to try to change Goverenment policy (the cause of this) in Sudan. when I said in my post yesterday that the next month or two were critical, I was quoating the president of Doctors Without Borders, who has just returned from the refugee camps. This won't wait for Kerry's election.
I don't know much about the international humanitarian aid sector. I think more about effective long term economic, social and personal development in the "developing" areas of the world.
I am an advocate of ecological sanitation (seperating liquid and solid human waste at the source and returning both productively and safely to the enviornment without the use of water. www.ecosan.org)
I am an educator. So when I was thinking about the people in these camps (yesterday I saw a report on BBC) It occured to me that despite the harrowing nature of their ordeal, these refugee situations also provide educational opportunities, whose value might well be longstanding.
Just a thought.
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Does a prevention policy exist?
August 20, 2004 - 04:45 AM
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Thanks Luke,Robert and KS for those informative lines. I get amazed time and again when disaster that could have been long avoided takes toll as those who are supposed to be protecting human dignity watch on.
At the same time, it will not be surprising when other crises affecting human nature come up so long as a policy on disaster prevention is not put in place or implemented(that is if it exists!).
The Darfur crisis was something that was seen at a distance or rather predicted but the concerned authorities were simply not fast enough. I vividly remember Koffi Annan and Colin Powell's visits to Sudan at the start the on-going Darfur crisis. This was one of the best gestures shown by high-level office bearers as far as Humanitarian Crises are concerned. However, it beats my understanding that despite their visit,the situation escalated!
Was it lack of proper coordination among the implementing partners trying to save the situatiuon?
Was it lack of logistics? Was it a political move to benefit some Sudanese government officials? I pause these queries to myself and imagine: "really,all these questions could be answered,but at the cost of human life"
It's not too late for something can be done and ought to be done.Waiting for Kerry wouldn't be a bad idea ,however many will have perished. The Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) have always and will always stand out simply because of their exclusive working methods,non-existent beauraucracy and neutral ground that they always hold at the centre of armed conflicts.
Forget about UN specialised agencies responsible for this,the beauraucracy simply sucks!
Despite his leading by example,Koffi Annan has to take tough stands on this and advise his subjects .
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Sudanese refugees
September 10, 2004 - 03:12 AM
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Hello all
Really a good topic it was luk. as a sudan crises became a real humanatrian catastrophy that need to a real action to be solved..
Beside the problems of sudanese in chad, i would like to add an other sudanese critical issue of refugees in cairo, As the UN o ffice in cairo decided to stop resettel ment procedures for the sudanese refugees, while khartoum goverment still continoue in her human abuse policies, ethinc clearance war againist non arabic -muslims sudanese people, torture and death againist democratics and non governmental parties.. Now adays sudanese people immigrating over all the world through cairo, chad and ethiopia escaping from the real death made by the government, looking for better situations with human rights..
within all the above, the un office in cairo stop his work with sudanese refugees. and delayed resetelment processes for them, without alternatives, as we know that sudanese refugees in cairo are estimated to be more than 5 millions.. and there is no supported infrastructure for this lare number... so the UN decision put the refugees in a critical situations that need a global look for their fait..
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David Sontag
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Median age: 17.9
September 16, 2004 - 07:13 AM
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Has anyone noticed that more than half of the population in Sudan is under the age of 18?
Compare this, for example, to the United States, in which the median age is 36 (meaning over half the people in the US are over the age of 36).
See: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html
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Re: the Sudan crisis
September 18, 2004 - 02:18 AM
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YES SUDAN IS REALLY A COUNTRY THAT ALL THE INTERNATIONAL BODIES WHO ARE INTERESTED IN HUMANITY BE FOCUSED ON NOW BECAUSE THERE IS REALLY ALOT OF SUFFERINGS GOING ON THERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE DYING AND THE ILL OF IT IS THAT IT'S THE YOUNG ONES THAT ARE MOSTLY AFFECTED WHICH IS NOT GOOD BECAUSE WE NEED THEM IN THE SOCIETY,IN AS MUCH AS INTERNATIONAL BODIES LIKE THE UN,AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE TRIED THEIR BEST THERE IS STILL MUCH TO BE DONE TO REALLY PUT SMILES ON THE FACES OF THESE PEOPLE.
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NADUS ...
November 9, 2004 - 08:20 AM
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I do not know what to say about the Sudan crisis...But, I have raised a 2000ringgit malaysia in my college to donate to Mercy Malaysia who is involve in helping the Sudanese too..
Shirley McSalad
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