Kalma Camp, South Sudan, April 2005. The railroad south. 10 years ago the railroad brought refugees to safety from the war between southern and northern Sudan. Today, the Kalma camp has sprung up beside the tracks and is home to 150,000 refugees.
Kalma Camp, South Sudan, April 2005. A young woman sick with malaria collapses in the camp. A passersby uses her clothes to cover her and protect her from the burning desert sun. Meanwhile the woman lays helpless, waiting for someone to come to her aid... or to die.
Kalma Camp, South Sudan, April 2005. A newly-arrived refugee child waits in his new home. Many of the refugees arriving inherit the primitive shelters left behind by others who have died from sickness or moved to other camps. The tiny shelters offer little protection from the sun and heat during the day or the wind and cold during the night but they are safer than the refugees old villages which are regularly attacked by the Janjaweed militia.
Golo, Jebel Marra mountains, South Suda, April 2005. A young mother tries to breast feed her baby. After weeks of illness, she is lying in pools of her own blood and urine and is to weak to move. She is one of the many young women in the camps who, ready to give birth or with newborns, have flocked to the few field hospitals set up by aid organizations.
Golo, Jebel Marra mountains, South Sudan, April 2005. A refugee waits outside a field hospital for medical attention. In the remote and inhospitable Jebel Marra mountains of southern Darfur, civilians are suffering and dying. The region has long been a stronghold for the rebel factions of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) but is also home to large numbers of Janjaweed militia and government troops.
Habile, Eastern Chad, November 2006. IDP's waiting for food distribution near the village of Habile. Habile used to be a small village with no more than a few hundred people, but now more than ten thousand people have sought refuge due to attacks from Janjaweed.
Goz Beida, Eastern Chad, November 2006. Adulaye Idriss tried to rescue his family and the village near Koloy, when it was attacked by Janjaweed militias. The militias caught him and with bayonets stabbed out both his eyes. Now he is in the hospital in Goz Beida trying to recover, even though he is in pain he still tries to keep his two year old son Yassin close to him.
Eastern Chad, November 2006. Under a tree a few hundred people have sought refuge after their village was burned to the ground. Khadija, the old woman, is blind, she is looking after her grandson Abdullahi while his mother Maryam is out to collect firewood and water for the small family. It is during these dangerous trips that woman often get attacked, raped, or beaten up by militias. Men would be killed instantly. The family has not received any help since they escaped four weeks ago.
Goz Beida, Eastern Chad, November 2006. IDP's at Kerfi road outside Goz Beida - only a few kilometers from their location, Janjaweed have one of their many camps in the area.
Eastern Chad, November 2006. Baco Mustapha was the local chief in the village Lobetiga. He lost one of his sons when Janjaweed attacked. Now he returned, guarded by Chadian gendarmes to see if anything could be saved - nothing was left, all the supplies that the villagers had stored had been burned.
Lobetiga, Eastern Chad, November 2006. A man sees the remains of his former house in the burned village Lobetiga.
Eastern Chad, November 2006. A woman from the village Gjorlo crying over the loss of one of the woman's husbands. He died of his wounds after they escaped.
Goz Beida, Eastern Chad, November 2006. IDP's seeking shelter close to the village of Goz Beida - they left the village of Gjorlo, when it was attacked by Janjaweed militias a few weeks ago. Ten people got killed during the attack. Now they live here without receiving any help from aid agencies.
Lobetiga, Eastern Chad, November 2006. Chadian gendarmes looking at the remains of the grain storage in the village Lobetiga.
CGoz Beida, Eastern Chad, November 2006. Azimir was to old to fight when Janjaweed attacked his village not far from Goz Beida. When they caught him they threw him into a burning house, now he is lying outside the hospital in Goz Beida with severe burns to his body.
Goz Beida, Eastern Chad, November 2006. Sudanese refugees in the refugee camp outside Goz Beida.
Eastern Chad, November 2006. A dried out river (Wadi) close to Bahai.
Goz Beida, Chad, March 2007. 2 year old Kahmis Guma Adam in the hospital in Goz Beida, He was wounded when a hand grenade exploded in the classroom in the refugee camp Goz Amir.
Goz Beida, Chad, March 2007. The refugee camp Kouroukoum outside Goz Beida. Refugees chopping down a three at a refugee sight in the outskirts of Goz Beida.
Goz Beida, Chad, March 2007. The refugee camp Kouroukoum outside Goz Beida.
Goz Beida, Eastern Chad, March 2007. Woman and children waiting for water at Kerfi road outside Goz Beida.
Kou Kou, Eastern Chad, March 2007. A Sudanese refugee at a small field outside the refugee camp Goz Amir.
Kou Kou, Eastern Chad, March 2007. A Sudanese refugee at a small field outside Goz Amir camp near Kou Kou.
Kou Kou, Eastern Chad, March 2007. A Sudanese woman and her children on their way to Goz Amir refugee camp near Kou Kou in eastern Chad, close to the border to Darfur.
Kou Kou, Eastern Chad, March 2007. Goz Amir refugee camp.
Kou Kou, Eastern Chad, March 2007. A man waiting for doctors to help him, lying outside the health clinic in Goz Amir refugee camp.
Goz Amir , Kou Kou, Eastern Chad, March 2007. An abandoned marketplace outside the refugee camp Goz Amir. The market has been attacked by Janjaweed several times, even though the Chadian army is present in the area.
