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Sudanese girls jump rope as many look on at the Yida refugee camp along the border with North Sudan June 30, 2012 in Yida, South Sudan.
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New arrivals wait in long lines to register with UNHCR at the Yida refugee camp along the border with North Sudan, June 30, in Yida, South Sudan.
Water has been a precious resource with which aid agencies have struggled. Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000, as the refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan with new arrivals at 300-600 a day. The rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children suffering from diarrhea and severe malnutrition as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population, as most have arrived with only the clothes they are wearing. Many new arrivals walked from 5 days up to 2 weeks or more to reach the camp.
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The only way to relieve suffering at refugee camps is to eliminate the conditions that create the need for refugee camps. This means reigning in or smashing the out-of-control governments, warlords and militias that terrorize helpless populations.
Mission nearly impossible, but maybe no more difficult than providing for millions of destitute, starving and sick people at some of the most inaccessible and inhospitable places on the planet.
I agree. It's ok for the world to allow millions of people to die of starvation (genocide in some cases), but it is somehow not ok for us to eliminate the base cause of such things??? Why don't we just send in some troops with a serious no nonsense approach to destroying the warlords? Forget politics; just get it done! Same goes for the drug lords in Mexico, we should annihilate them.
I have been saying for some time now that we need a (new) South Atlantic Treaty Organization (SATO) to compliment NATO if we are to ever get these African problems under control. You would think President Obama would be leading the way in this, if anyone would (I certainly would !!!). - Rick Carter
It is continuation of genocides of Christians in Darfur!
Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals' genocides of Christians is contnuing in Sudan! It will be an ongoing process.
It has started in Nigeria.
Still, cheap agents of Sunni Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists are busy focussing on Syria and Iran.
Where there is not much monies, not many are bothered!
Thanks to the Arab Muslim radical extremists that will kill you if you don't support them and their religion ....
the kid with the stripe pants may be poor but look how happy he is there. Hope their lives improve for the better.
critical times hard to deal with, will be here. man domingatin man to his injury.
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Africa has been revieveing Cood Aide for DECADES ! ! !
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It absoluetly bores me when the 'uninformed' say "we need to send more Aide. More FREE...
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...FREE Medicine, more FREE Food. The facts are clear.... the World has
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given hundreds on Billions in Aide to Africa. George Bush, for all the crap he put
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USA through, was the most helpful US President in giving WAY too much money in the
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form of Aide to Africa. Please read between the lines, they would know that
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SLOWING THE BIRTH RATE is the one thing most helpful, yet least discussed when
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takling about the Ponzi Scheme that is Africa.
But as I understand it, the poverty-stricken Africans have six or eight children in the hopes that one or two will survive to care for them in their old age. The only answer might be a one-child policy like China's, and I don't see that happening there.
Cassandra-854239 and ALLERGIC TO STUPID PEOPLE...Allow me to humbly disagree with your Simplistic, Childish and Offending comments. Offending, not only to me as an African, but to the rest of those good people out there.
You two are clearly angry at Africans, otherwise how can you blame the victim for being the victim? It beats all sense! You blame them for having babies, for being poor, for being victims!
Those are the 2 most ridiculous accusations I've ever heard. Or wait, I stand collected. They sound exactly like when the nazis blamed the Jews for owning the properties that the nazis had vandalised the previous night and demanding that they had to pay for the damages themselvs(the Jews)!
You two sound like a couple of spoilt kids, you probably are, but next time you wanna air your nazistic comments, pick your audiance and talk about things that your simple minds can proccess.
robski, believe me, if the Nazis had stopped at giving the Jews contraceptives, the Jews would have been very happy. And I am sorry that you are offended...but I am pretty outraged at seeing those pictures of starving babies. And if birth control IS available...which is not at all clear...but IF it is available...then you are darn right I blame the people who are having babies they can't afford to feed.
hey Cassandra..... it seems you and I are COMPLETELY WRONG in blaming AFRICANS for AFRICANS' issues. I forgot..... we need to blame Bush, the CIA, Haleburton, and "Faux News"
REMEMBER CASSANDRA.... "we need to blame everyone BUT Africans for Africans complete lack of social resonsibility. We should, instead, include them in the Food Stamp Program"
Just cut to the chase-it is white peoples fault.
Cassandra-854239 and ALLERGIC TO STUPID PEOPLE...The name of the POST is Crisis Grows at Yida refugee Camp in South Sudan........and it goes on to say................. Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000, as the refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan with new arrivals at 300-600 a day. Nowhere does it say the crisis is due to over population by lack of birth control....Sit back open your mind and think of the conditions in refugee camp, Especially for people with no protection (women being raped/living conditions are far far far .....far...far ...far below sub standard conditions and you can add any other terrible condition you can think off......Just something to think about as.. You two idiots type away on your pc and ipads etc...seated comfortably in your a/c sipping cold drinks ..... OPEN YOUR MIND .....THINK before you type nonsense
Do you think this problem happened in a vacuum? Or did it happen because blacks of any stripe can't stop making babies, stop warring,or know how to grow food? So the crisis is related to-------