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  • Aerial view of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) the front-line town in north Darfur during a tribal war resulting from colonial land-use. Basic housing is seen against the barren and scorched red earth in this area of south-western Sudan. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe.
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  • Ladies attending the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, gather in a compound belonging to the Governor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan068-23-05-2009_1.jpg
  • A young girl pushes her wheelbarrow away from a wood stall that supplies building materials and fire timber in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries and a third of families in the camps are headed by women.
    sudan195-24-05-2009_1_1.jpg
  • Ladies attending the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, raise their hands in the hope of peace while gathering to hear speeches by the British peer Lord Ahmed and traditional songs by local singers just outside the compound walls belonging to the Governor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues and celebrate Darfurian culture. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan142-23-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Ladies attending the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, gather to admire local Darfuri handcrafts on display in a compound belonging to the Governor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan091-23-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Ladies attending the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, gather to dance and sing traditional songs in a compound belonging to the Governor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan118-23-05-2009_1_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) the front-line town in north Darfur during a tribal war resulting from colonial land-use. Basic housing is seen against the barren and scorched red earth in this area of south-western Sudan. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe.
    sudan233-24-05-2009_1.jpg
  • A man sweeps his own area where he sells food in the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries and a third of families in the camps are headed by women.
    sudan172-24-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Young boy in the shade of the souk market of the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. The camp has 17 schools, clinics and commercial activity  based around a market, furniture manufacture and variety of cottage industries and a third of families in the camps are headed by women.
    sudan189-24-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Darfurian women express the hope of peace when they line-up at Al Fashir airport, Sudan to greet British peer Lord Ahmed of Rotheram who has brought over from the UK, a delegation to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the governor in his own compound. The Sudanese Women General Union. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan055-23-05-2009_1.jpg
  • British Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham dances with local women and children in a compound of the governor of north Darfur, Osman Mohammed Yousef Kibir at Al Fashir, Sudan. Nazir, Baron Ahmed (born 1958) is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998 and is in this war-torn province of Sudan to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the governor in his own compound. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan119-23-05-2009_1_1.jpg
  • After a flight from the Sudanese capital Khartoum, British Muslim activist, TV broadcaster and journalist, Yvonne Ridley is greeted by women of Darfur on the tarmac of Al-Fashir airport. She and a delegation hosted by British peer Lord Ahmed, she is here to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the governor in his own compound. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan047-23-05-2009_1.jpg
  • Young boys between the ages of 8 and 13 gather under the shade of a brightly-coloured canopy in the compound of the Governor of the war-torn region of north Darfur, Sudan. Dressed in white gowns and wearing red bandanas, they will soon celebrate a Sudanese rite of passage, the male circumcision. Only when they have recited the entire Qur'an [Koran] once through will they generally endure this traditional practice.
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  • Dr Safaa Elagib Adam reads documents on the journey by air to the firstever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur. Seated in a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves her a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
    sudan041-23-05-2009_1.jpg
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