Sudan: The Forgotten War
Olivier Jobard
Sipa Press
The 2004 CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage sponsored by Sanofi-Synthélabo
The war which has wreaked havoc in Darfur in western Sudan since February 2003 has produced one of the greatest humanitarian disasters: 200 000 refugees in Chad, one million persons displaced in the country, and more than 10 000 dead.
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The United Nations simply referred to “ethnic cleansing”, and the humanitarian disaster has often been overlooked, with attention focused on the difficult peace discussions between the Arab-Muslim north and the Christian-Animist south which have been in conflict since 1983.
All the photos were taken in January 2004, on the Chad-Sudan border, between Tine and Bamina, where four to five hundred refugees cross over every day in a bid to survive.
