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...

By early 2004 more than one million people had sought to escape violence and suffering in the three states of the Darfur region of Sudan. More than 180 000 of these displaced people are refugees in Chad; the majority, however, remain in Darfur, crowded into more than 100 camps scattered across 540 000 km. They are dependent on external help for protection, adequate supplies of safe drinking-wat...

Abstract The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported in Sudan on 13 March 2020. Since then, has experienced one of the highest rates COVID-19 spread and fatalities Africa. One year later, as per 22 2021, had registered 29,661 confirmed cases 2,028 deaths with a case fatality rate (CFR) 6.8 %. By 12 December 2020, 18 states Sudan, South Kordofan fifth CFR 17.4 %, only surpassed b...

The study was conducted to determine the plants preference by goats grazing at Central Darfur State, Sudan in 2016. The objective was to identify desirable plants that would assist in range rehabilitation. Five mature female goats were used to determine diet selection using the bite count technique. The total number of bites from each plant species was recorded and the selected diet and prefere...

The purpose of this paper is to document Qatar’s recent contribution humanitarian, development, and peace-related efforts the Sudanese in Darfur. It delves deeply into involvement Darfur by tracing flow foreign assistance provided between 2011 2018, while analysing relevant mediation settle conflict region. calls for adopting Triple Nexus approach – or humanitarian development-peace nexus deali...

Title: An algorithm to assess methodological quality of nutrition and mortality cross-sectional surveys: development and application to surveys conducted in Darfur, Sudan Authors: Claudine Prudhon ([email protected]) Xavier de Radigues ([email protected]) Nancy Dale

CONTEXT Mass violence against civilians in the west of Sudan has resulted in the displacement of more than 1.5 million people (25% of the population of the Darfur region). Most of these people are camped in 142 settlements. There has been increasing international concern about the health status of the displaced population. OBJECTIVE To perform rapid epidemiological assessments of mortality an...

BACKGROUND Violence in Darfur, Sudan, has rendered more than one million people internally displaced. An epidemiological study of the effect of armed incursions on mortality in Darfur was needed to provide a basis for appropriate assistance to internally displaced people. METHODS Between April and June, 2004, we did retrospective cluster surveys among 215?400 internally displaced people in fo...