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USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO SUDAN (MAP series)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) posted on ReliefWeb
In 2007, Sudan continues to cope with the effects of conflict, displacement, and insecurity countrywide. During more than two decades of conflict between the former Government of Sudan (GOS) and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), fighting, famine, and disease killed more than 2 million people, forced an estimated 600,000 people to seek refuge in neighboring countries,and displaced 4 million people within SudanÂthe largest internally displaced person (IDP) population in the world.
Two young children sit next to a vehicle of African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) in Kutum, 40km (25 miles) north west of the administrative capital of North Darfur, El ...