Darfur crisis intensifies

Darfur overshadows "forgotten" crisis in neighbouring Uganda.

on mosquito nets and insecticides. “Some countries tax mosquito nets at the same rate as an Armani suit. At the Abuja summit all the African heads of state agreed to stop this but few countries have followed this through,” De Savigny said adding: “Tanzania was one country that did so and now has one of the highest net coverages in Africa. In comparison, Nigeria still applies a 70% tax on nets”....

The Darfur Crisis: Associated Mental Health Problems Among Internally Displaced Women

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When emotion intensifies memory interference

Many of our most vivid memories are of emotional events; in research studies, emotional events or items are often more likely to be remembered than neutral events or items. However, as pointed out in this chapter, the same characteristics that make emotional information memorable can also make emotional information more subject to interference effects in memory. Thus, being reminded of some emo...

Mortality in Darfur: Lessons for Humanitarian Policy

In recent years there has been considerable debate over how best to formulate reliable estimates of confl ict mortality rates. However, in formulating humanitarian policy to respond to violent confl icts it is important to go beyond crude mortality rates to look at the causes and timings of deaths. This Policy Briefi ng presents the results of a MICROCON study on Darfur which disaggregates caus...