Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence
by The Guardian
The Guardian— As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the borderEvery night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.The operation was an extraordinary act of bravery and selflessness: Mukhtar is an Arab, and the people he was...
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CNN—People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan. Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance doesn’t reach them soon, we risk witnessing widespread starvation and death in Darfur and across other conflict-affected areas in Sudan,” Michael Dunford added. Sudan has been gripped...