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NEWS STORY: November 16, 2009 Darfur Must Not Become a Forgotten Emergency
Darfur is in danger of becoming a forgotten emergency, according to Nyika Musiyazwiriyo, the outgoing Head of Programmes for the joint ACT/Caritas Darfur Programme.
NEWS STORY: November 16, 2009 A Flying Visit
For two hours our small plane droned its way south-eastwards from Khartoum towards our destination of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: August 20, 2009 Darfur: Sleeping Tight in Safe Haven
Derieg camp in Darfur was, and is, Fiza’s safe haven. She has been living there since she fled with her family from the Janjaweed militia 5 years ago.
FEATURE STORY: July 23, 2008 ACT-Caritas prepare for the coming rains
Life in Darfur can be harsh at the best of times, but during the rainy season it can be particularly challenging.
FEATURE STORY: April 25, 2008 Determined to learn despite the challenges
A large group of children gather in front of Um Gozein School in Mershing, South Darfur, filling the yard with the excited chatter of their young voices.
FEATURE STORY: March 6, 2008 Interview: Peacebuilding, Protection and Psychosocial staff
In a staff interview, Katherine Gicuku Ireri and Adam Ateem provide some insight into the Peacebuilding, Protection and Psychosocial response by ACT-Caritas in South and West Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: March 6, 2008 Investing in safe delivery, life-saving training for women in Darfur
"I assisted the delivery and after that I became a birth attendant," recalls Hawa.
FEATURE STORY: February 8, 2008 New community centre -- a place for all generations
In a place where life is hard, this second community centre has just opened to become a source of strength for the people of Dereig.
NEWS STORY: October 18, 2007 In troubled Darfur: 'A humanitarian problem that will not go away quickly'
Recent attacks combined with detentions of humanitarian workers are just the latest examples of a deteriorating situation.
NEWS STORY: October 10, 2007 ACT-Caritas continues life-saving activities despite increased tension in region
ACT-Caritas programme in South Darfur has temporarily relocated a number of international staff to Khartoum.
NEWS STORY: September 27, 2007 Three ACT-Caritas staff free after being detained
Three ACT-Caritas staff are now free after being detained by an armed group and released into police custody.
FEATURE STORY: July 24, 2007 Conflict resolution in Darfur camps
With training and assistance ACT-Caritas, several groups of sheikhs, women and youth have been empowered with the skills and knowledge to enable them to resolve conflicts peacefully.
NEWS STORY: July 11, 2007 A sporting start
For the first time ever, a football match is being played between young people from Khamsadegaig camp and the local youth team from Zalingei.
FEATURE STORY: June 28, 2007 Water for Darfur
Women in colourful toubs wait patiently in the long line-up for water -- one of the most precious commodities in this dusty, parched region of Sudan.
FEATURE STORY: June 25, 2007 Continuing attacks on villages in Darfur
In South Darfur, another 3,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of brutal attacks on their villages.
NEWS STORY: June 19, 2007 ACT-Caritas NGO worker killed in Darfur
An ACT-Caritas employee was shot and killed on his way home from work.
FEATURE STORY: June 10, 2007 Blankets bring comfort
“You have done good for us, we send our regards to you who sent us the blankets.”
FEATURE STORY: April 13, 2007 Lack of security remains a challenge to assisting remote communities
While people living in camps now have access to basic services, remote communities in Darfur have received little humanitarian assistance. ACT-Caritas is trying to improve sanitation and thereby health in suc
FEATURE STORY: March 30, 2007 'Revealing and informative'
John Nduna, the Director of ACT International, speaks on his recent visit to Darfur, Sudan.
FEATURE STORY: March 26, 2007 Paid protection
A sand track leads north from Zalingei to the village of Abata, but these days few people travel along it.
FEATURE STORY: February 20, 2007 Darfur health outreach and beyond
It’s Sunday, market day in Hassaballa. People have come to trade their wares, but they have also come to visit the mobile health clinic, which has been set up by ACT-Caritas.
FEATURE STORY: January 30, 2007 Firewood collection: A threat to women and a threat to the environment
As the afternoon sun beats down and despite their heavy loads, their pace is fast and unrelenting. The three women are hurrying back to the safety of the camp.
FEATURE STORY: January 9, 2007 The shadow of a mountain: Both refuge and darkness for people displaced by conflict
As the sun rises from behind the mountain, boys in long, white shirts, known as “jelabia,” hurry through the streets of Nertiti, kicking up the dust with their feet.
FEATURE STORY: December 13, 2006 Weapons of mass displacement
Over the past two months, more than 10,000 people have arrived in Otash camp, fleeing attacks on their homes in the Tulus and Buram localities in Sudan’s South Darfur province.
NEWS STORY: December 1, 2006 HIV and AIDS awareness in Darfur
To mark World AIDS Day, the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC), a national member of ACT-Caritas, has organized three days of events in Nyala, South Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: November 24, 2006 Wildfire in South Darfur
Gunfire, fields alight and homes burning. Around 40,000 civilians have been forced from their homes in the eastern region of South Darfur in the past month.
FEATURE STORY: October 5, 2006 The way home is peace
For some of the internally displaced people living in camps in Darfur, it is now safe to go home. However, those who can go home are not Darfurians.
FEATURE STORY: September 13, 2006 There’s quiet but no peace
Four months since the signing of the peace agreement, security is yet to be established.
FEATURE STORY: September 6, 2006 Community centers provide help that heals
People living in camps in Darfur depend on humanitarian-aid agencies for all their basic needs: food, water, shelter and essential household items. But with community centers in eleven c
FEATURE STORY: August 29, 2006 Displaced again and again
In recent months, following attacks by armed militias in Chad, hundreds of refugees from Darfur have fled back across the border into Sudan. Too afraid of the militias to return to their villages, they are sheltering in the town of Juguma.
NEWS STORY: August 23, 2006 A crisis within a crisis
ACT-Caritas water committees have continued to work providing clean water to their communities during an increase of attacks on humanitarian organisations. But if the pattern of violence is sustained, will they be able to cope?
NEWS STORY: August 21, 2006 Severe floods hit town of Kubum
One boy dies, houses collapse, crops destroyed and water sources contaminated in one of the worst floods Kubum has seen for years.
FEATURE STORY: August 11, 2006 Youths fight against HIV and AIDS in Darfur
In Nyala, South Darfur, some youths have chosen to fight. But they have taken up arms against a very different opponent to that of other armed groups -- they are fighting against HIV and AIDS.
NEWS STORY: August 2, 2006 Shelters for hundreds of families
Hundreds of families who have spent two months sheltering in school buildings now have their own individual shelters.
FEATURE STORY: July 31, 2006 Working for peace from Macedonia to Darfur
One person with first-hand experience in both Macedonia and Darfur is Vladimir Lazovski, a 28-year-old aid worker from Skopje. As he now approaches the end of his assignment, Vladimir re
FEATURE STORY: July 25, 2006 Patients double at health clinic
The health clinic in Garsila is finding it hard to cope with an influx of patients. There are not enough staff and not enough drugs to treat the sick.
FEATURE STORY: July 25, 2006 Nowhere is safe
People living in camps in South Darfur continue to live in fear. "We came here to be protected but we are not safe," is the resounding echo from a group of sheikhs.
NEWS STORY: July 20, 2006 Driver for local NGO working with ACT-Caritas shot and killed
A driver who was hired by a local NGO and partner of the faith-based humanitarian operation of ACT-Caritas in Darfur, to take staff home, was killed on Wednesday, July 19.
NEWS STORY: July 11, 2006 Displaced people start to call for justice and protection by international forces
At first glance, it seems like life as usual in one of Darfur’s biggest camps for displaced people. But not everything is the same.
FEATURE STORY: June 6, 2006 'We need protection'
Over the last month, some 4,000 families have fled to Nyala to escape the fighting between militia and rebel groups in South Darfur.
NEWS STORY: May 18, 2006 Peace talks in Nigeria continue, but life in Darfur getting even more desperate
As diplomats have pressed for peace in talks in Abuja, Nigeria, the situation on the ground in Darfur seems a world away.
FEATURE STORY: January 31, 2006 Darfur's growing insecurity makes life difficult for thousands of displaced
He was on his knees, praying in his shop in a Darfur camp, when the militias on camels and horses came thundering in. “I was afraid. I was afraid of being killed,” said Sher Idriss Ishmael.
FEATURE STORY: January 31, 2006 Thousands displaced as violence and tension mount in South Darfur
Armed militias have driven more than 55,000 people from their homes in South Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: January 25, 2006 Peace high on agenda of interfaith meetings
In the sun in Nyala, South Darfur, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, head of Scotland’s Roman Catholics, lead an ecumenical prayer for peace in Darfur in the presence of more than 2,000 people.
NEWS STORY: December 23, 2005 Darfur’s displaced face grim future as vital aid is slashed
Darfur’s two million displaced people could face a grim future as aid agencies dramatically scale back their programmes because of slashed funds from donors.
NEWS STORY: December 23, 2005 ACT-Caritas assists people displaced by violence near Zalingei, West Darfur
ACT-Caritas assists 500 households folllowing recent violence in Nyangadoulu, which has displaced close to 1,200 people from their homes.
FEATURE STORY: December 8, 2005 Fortunate to be alive
When Amona Adam Osman came to the feeding center in South Darfur, she was a tiny skeleton. Her mother’s breasts were dry, and the baby could no longer take in food.
FEATURE STORY: November 11, 2005 Violence continues to plague villages in West Darfur
She grabbed her baby son and fled as the village was attacked by gunmen. She didn’t even know where her husband was.
NEWS STORY: October 20, 2005 Irish aid worker takes helm of relief operation in tense Darfur
Anne Masterson, a Dublin-born relief worker with experience across Africa, has just taken over as head of one of the biggest emergency relief operations in South and West Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: October 14, 2005 ACT-Caritas works to promote good hygiene practice in Darfur
Spruce in her yellow toub, a 22-year-old mother shows visitors the tiny hut and small surrounding area, which is her temporary home in a camp in Zalingei, West Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: October 11, 2005 School supported by ACT-Caritas brings hope to children in Zalingei, West Darfur
The sound of the school bell echoes across the plastic sheets and temporary huts of Hassa Hissa refugee camp, bringing with it the sound of hope.
FEATURE STORY: September 26, 2005 Clinic supported by ACT-Caritas serves as lifeline
A clinic supported by ACT-Caritas provides a vital lifeline to hundreds of people living in trouble-stricken South Darfur, Sudan.
FEATURE STORY: September 21, 2005 Insecurity in Darfur threatens aid
Banditry is rife, with humanitarian convoys regularly ambushed, civilians robbed and villagers forced to flee their homes.
FEATURE STORY: August 31, 2005 Darfur runs risk of becoming another ‘silently escalating’ forgotten emergency
A year after the conflict here captured the world’s attention, people who were driven from their land still express a deep fear of returning to their homes.
NEWS STORY: August 11, 2005 ACT-Caritas malnutrition survey shows impact of Darfur's conflict on Zalingei town
More people, who live in a town in Darfur, are suffering from malnutrition, than the people who live in the nearby makeshift camps according to an ACT-Caritas survey published today.
NEWS STORY: July 18, 2005 The way forward: Sudanese helping Sudanese
In a unique ceremony the Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO) took over the running of Bilel Camp near Nyala in South Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: July 17, 2005 Rainy season signals tough time for Darfur's IDPs
In Darfur, 1.88 million people in camps are facing yet another rainy season. Temporary shelters give limited protection and often collapse when the sky opens and heavy rains pour from the sky.
FEATURE STORY: July 11, 2005 Reviving Darfur's neglected health system
It is not unusual to find a rural hospital in Darfur without doctors, or a health unit without medicine.
FEATURE STORY: June 30, 2005 'Security is our number one priority'
Zeinab is grateful to her God. The straw construction where her children used to sleep is still standing. Her other two huts were burned to the ground in December 2003.
NEWS STORY: June 27, 2005 ACT-Caritas airlifts emergency supplies to Darfur to beat rainy season
The last few days have seen 139 tons of relief items flown to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur by the ACT-Caritas operation. More is on its way.
FEATURE STORY: June 22, 2005 Going home: ACT-Caritas hopes to assist many of the displaced people leaving camps
Hundreds of hopeful families from Darfur’s biggest camp have decided to pack their few belongings and climb aboard one of the provided trucks that will take them home.
NEWS STORY: June 7, 2005 Situation in Darfur 'extremely fragile' as rainy season starts
With the rainy season underway, the ACT-Caritas operation warns that the situation for people displaced by the conflict is "extremely fragile."
NEWS STORY: May 28, 2005 UN Secretary-General visits ACT-Caritas school
Director of ACT-Caritas program stresses strong need for protection of civilians in Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: May 19, 2005 The wait for water
With major displacement of people challenging the access to water, ACT-Caritas is working full speed to drill boreholes in order to meet the needs of people in Garsilla,West Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: April 22, 2005 Preparing for the rainy season
People in Bulbul develop a plan to store medical supplies during the rainy season.
FEATURE STORY: April 18, 2005 'I want to become a teacher'
In spite of the many daily challenges, pupils attending Hassa Hissa School outside Zalingei in West Darfur are eager to learn.
FEATURE STORY: April 14, 2005 In Kubum, ACT-Caritas assists cases of severe malnutrition in children
With training complete for staff in Kubum, ACT-Caritas has started its own pilot program to treat severe cases of malnutrition among young children.
NEWS STORY: April 11, 2005 Displaced and host communities find ways to live together in Sudan's troubled Darfur
ACT-Caritas has adopted a policy ensuring that their services are available not only to the IDPs, but the host community as well.
FEATURE STORY: April 7, 2005 Fields of experience and conflict come together in Darfur
A small woman with a big smile worked in several emergencies in her native country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) before coming to Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: April 5, 2005 Assisting the most vulnerable
Humanitarian organisations working in the conflict-stricken region of Darfur do the best they can to reach out to the most vulnerable people.
NEWS STORY: March 17, 2005 ACT-Caritas continues work in South Darfur and eastern parts of West Darfur
In the midst of heightened tension and insecurity, ACT-Caritas programs continue in South Darfur and eastern parts of West Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: March 7, 2005 Life in a Darfur camp: Dust is abundant, but food is scarce
Outside the feeding centre in Hamadiya camp in West Darfur, women were waiting in a long queue on the red, sandy ground with their thin children in their laps.
FEATURE STORY: February 28, 2005 Prevention-based response: teaching that hygiene and health go hand-in-hand
The ACT-Caritas programme is training health promoters in order to improve the hygiene in the camps.
FEATURE STORY: February 17, 2005 Locally constructed stoves make big difference in women's lives
Women are learning how to make stoves that not only reduce the time spent cooking, but also reduce their risk of being harassed when collecting firewood.
NEWS STORY: February 8, 2005 Starting all over again
The villages along the dusty dirt road are empty. Plastic sheeting blows in the wind, and heaps of groundnuts are left in the field.
FEATURE STORY: February 1, 2005 Distributions ease difficult conditions for people displaced yet again in Darfur
It is one of those hypothetical questions that everyone dreads having to ever answer: If your house were burning down, what would you save?
NEWS STORY: December 20, 2004 Darfur is a tinderbox of war, dread and very little hope
Perhaps it is only from the window of a plane that it is possible to grasp the sheer enormity of what has happened in Darfur during the last 18 months.
FEATURE STORY: December 10, 2004 At the very least, children at school are out of harm’s way
A day at school can be a very small balm, both for a traumatized child and a traumatized society.
FEATURE STORY: November 26, 2004 Unable to farm, people in Darfur face food shortages
"There is no food, no homes. Life has become very difficult," says the local Imam, Mohammed Ibrahim.
NEWS STORY: November 26, 2004 Support for displaced people from Sudan's south
Many of those who fled the protracted war in the south sought safety in Darfur. Now, with reports of an imminent southern peace deal, people say they want to go home, as again, they find themselves caught up in another conflict.
FEATURE STORY: November 23, 2004 Treating the most common diseases: ACT-Caritas sets up clinics for displaced people of Darfur
ACT-Caritas provides basic health services to families through 13 clinics, with 27 more clinics and nutrition centers planned.
NEWS STORY: November 23, 2004 Venturing outside of some IDP camps dangerous, ACT-Caritas survey shows
ACT-Caritas recently carried out a survey among more than 200 IDP families to find out more about fears and patterns associated with the gathering of firewood.
NEWS STORY: November 23, 2004 Special support for very young children: ACT-Caritas sets up nutrition centres in IDP camps
ACT-Caritas implements a feeding program that provides supplementary food to children under age five, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.
NEWS STORY: November 18, 2004 Deteriorating security situation hampers ACT-Caritas work in Darfur
The deteriorating security situation in Darfur is high on the minds of internally displaced persons and the humanitarian aid organisations that are there assisting them.
FEATURE STORY: November 17, 2004 Supply of food low, malnourishment high in Darfur camps
Stripped of their safety, homes, means of making a living, and now struggling without even a basic necessity of life – food – the lives of people here hang in the balance.
FEATURE STORY: October 13, 2004 Families flee camp after attack
Thousands of Darfurians are again on the run, seeking safety for themselves and their children.
NEWS STORY: October 12, 2004 More attacks in Darfur's Ta’asha area
An attack on Bashum camp in the Ta'asha area in South Darfur has cost ten people their lives.
FEATURE STORY: October 6, 2004 Recent attacks in South Darfur change lives forever
Eleven-year-old Adam Musa Hamid's life changed forever when he was thrown off a camel during a kidnapping attempt by an armed group.
NEWS STORY: October 4, 2004 ACT-Caritas brings relief for new IDPs in Ta'asha area
ACT-Caritas teams meeting some of the most urgent needs of new arrivals to camps in the Ta’asha area.
NEWS STORY: September 28, 2004 Fighting erupts in Ta’asha area; thousands flee
Fighting occurred around Ta’asha in South Darfur, an operational area of ACT-Caritas, causing a huge influx of displaced persons to camps.
NEWS STORY: September 20, 2004 Displacement of people continues in Darfur
Continued attacks and general insecurity are still forcing people from their homes in Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: August 23, 2004 The cries of Darfur’s children and elderly: ‘This is not what life was supposed to be’
NEWS STORY: August 20, 2004 Aid supplies continue to arrive by air in Darfur
The first of two airlifts of aid supplies to this conflict-ridden region was expected to arrive this morning for the work of the ACT-Caritas in Darfur.
FEATURE STORY: August 13, 2004 'In former times we were independent and self-sufficient'
Escaping attacks from militias, families fled to a camp, some on mules, but mostly on foot. They lost their homes, their fields and most of their animals.
FEATURE STORY: August 13, 2004 'Now we have to start from scratch'
Two months ago, Ahmed Abdelsalam, a father of 11 children, left his village of Umbawada for the safety of Belil camp for internally displaced persons.
NEWS STORY: August 8, 2004 Airlift delivers vital aid to Darfur
An aircraft carrying vital items and equipment for the ACT-Caritas Darfur emergency response arrives in Nyala.
FEATURE STORY: August 4, 2004 Heavy rains threaten to cut off part of Darfur region
It is now only a matter of time before heavy rains completely cut off areas in Darfur, putting thousands of people at risk of becoming isolated and without proper access to aid.
NEWS STORY: July 30, 2004 ACT-Caritas announces health care plans for Darfur
ACT-Caritas has announced plans for an extensive health programme to treat vulnerable people at 40 locations around Kubum, Mershing and Manawashi.
FEATURE STORY: July 29, 2004 Many IDPs in South Darfur afraid of moving to camps
Displaced people in South Darfur are afraid of moving into camps, where they believe they will be more vulnerable.
FEATURE STORY: July 28, 2004 Hardship in Kalma and Belil camps
Displaced people face challenges in camps that have now become home -- a safe refuge from the fighting they have flex.
FEATURE STORY: July 28, 2004 Displaced families face a daily battle to survive
With no water, food, healthcare or shelter displaced families struggle to survive in Dirage, South Darfur.
NEWS STORY: July 28, 2004 ACT-Caritas delegation visits Darfur
A delegation from the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response visited several relief projects of the joint program this week in Nyala, Darfur.
NEWS STORY: July 12, 2004 Distribution supports 525 families in Belil camp
ACT-Caritas partner, Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO) distributed plastic sheeting, rope, soap and blankets to 525 families.
FEATURE STORY: July 5, 2004 Escaping attacks, displaced families find desperate situation in camps
Under one of thousands of tiny, makeshift shelters dotting the arid, lunar-like landscape, Khaltoum mourns the loss of her husband and cares for her children.
NEWS STORY: June 30, 2004 ACT-Caritas to distribute survival kits in Darfur
Two trucks loaded with 200 family survival kits provided by ACT-Caritas have left Nyala for Zalingei.
NEWS STORY: June 21, 2004 ACT-Caritas joint mission delivers supplies to Darfur
A planeload of food supplies, emergency shelter equipment and vehicles has arrived in Nyala, South Darfur to assist people displaced by insecurity in the Darfur region.
NEWS STORY: June 2, 2004 ACT and Caritas join forces in Sudan
Two faith-based networks representing Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic churches and their related agencies join forces to respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
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