What is the crisis in Darfur?
More than two million people have been directly affected (all six million in Darfur have been affected to some degree), and around one million people displaced, by the fighting between rebel groups, the Janjaweed militia (pro-Government) and Sudanese Government’s forces since early 2003. Statements by the UN Security Council, their representative in Sudan and Human Rights Watch have condemned the situation as one of ethnic cleansing through the use of mass rape, summary killings and a “scorched earth” policy. The UN and humanitarian agencies in Sudan have described the situation as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
