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Safe in Abeche
“It’s just a hiccup,” Suzanne says to us. We are sitting in a small room with three mattresses off to the side of UNHCR’s fitness center, our home for the evening. I truly believe her. All is quiet here in Abeche and it will remain as such. If anything, the rebels...
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第二天 : 等待
這一刻，大隊身在乍得的首都，離開達富爾人的難民營數百哩。Scott， Colin Gabriel 與 KTJ 遇到幾個障礙，包括遲來的許可證，錯過一班東去的航機，在Le Meridien 找不到安身之所和延誤多時都未能上載第一天的影片。此刻大隊已重新組合並等待UNHCR 給他們提供關於旅程的消息和東面的狀況。當大家在N’Djamena 耐心的等候時，其實心裏都惦記着那些難民朋友。到達Shallah...
Action
This Friday, join the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition begin your weekly commitment to Darfur Fridays and Keep International Focus on Darfur. This month use your weekly actions to ask President Bush to reconsider his plan to attend the opening ceremony of the...
An Update from the border of Chad-Darfur
Around 5,000 newly resettled refugees have begun to build 2-3 kilometers from the Chad-Darfur border. They are not concentrated but rather spread out in small pockets, sometimes only a few families huddle together near a wadi – which are soon to be filled with water...
One Panel. Two Stories.
The plane drops about 50 feet in a few seconds, and my stomach goes with it, then steadies. I peer out the window only to see a fine layer of sand, rather than a cloud line as you would in the States. It’s a bright sunny day, but the air is fogged with fine granules,...
Colin’s Day 4 Journal
It feels great to finally be en route to Goz Beida and some refugee camps. Even though it’s another travel day and we only made it to Abeche, I was starting to doubt whether we would actually be able to leave N’Djamena. We’re out tomorrow on an afternoon flight, but...
Scott’s Day 4 Journal
It was great to get out of N’djamena today, even if it required a plane ride that almost made me lose my breakfast (which consisted of a Cliffs granola bar). While I’m excited to get to the refugee camps tomorrow (finally!), I am nervous for a plane that will be...
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