Darfur, Sudan

Sudan Liberation Army fighters in rebel controlled territory in the Jebel Marra. The leather pouches they wear contain words of the Koran that are meant to protect them in battle.

Refugees around the town of Golo, in Jebel Marra, Darfur, July 2005
Kalma Camp, outside the city of Nyala in southern Darfur, houses about 90,000 refugees from the civil war in Darfur. Below are pictures of demonstrators at the camp in May 2006 welcoming Jan Egeland, the United Nations' top aid coordinator, and calling for international troops to intervene in Darfur

Gereida, in southern Darfur, is now about the biggest camp for international displaced people in Darfur. During this May visit rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement were hovering around the newly arrived refugees. Some 120,000 people live in Gereida, making it the biggest refugee center in Darfur.

African Union forces from Nigeria stationed in Gereida.

Sudan Liberation Army rebel fighters

Tamadur Adam, a 25-year-old mother of two, fled to Gereida in April when her village of Joghana came under attack by government helicopters and an Antonov plane dropping bombs. Soldiers roared around in land cruisers shouting, "We have conquered you! We have conquered you!"
Refugees fleeing attacks by the Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minnawi and government forces on the region around the village of Tawilla in northern Darfur in July 2006.
What the government uses "to keep the peace in Darfur", attack helicopters at El Fasher airport. The African Union peacekeepers' secret weapon, Major Majola of South Africa. South African troops drilling and an African Union helicopter taking off in Kutum, northern Darfur.

The landscape of northern Darfur