The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday May 26th, 2023
Sudan Instability Pushes Refugees to Chad by Rene Wadlow
Media attention has been largely focused on the armed conflict in the capital Khartoum between the rival generals Abdel Fattah al-Burham, Chief of the Army and Mohamed Hamdam Daglo, better known by his battle name “Hemetti”, Chief of the Rapid Support Forces. There has been the evacuation of personnel from the diplomatic embassies and refugee flows toward Egypt and South Sudan.
The current armed conflict has also had an impact on the unstable area of Darfur, western Sudan. Officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that in the last couple of weeks some 60,000 persons from Darfur have crossed the frontier into Chad which lacks the resources and infrastructure to deal adequately with this refugee flow.
Darfur (meaning the home of the Fur) is an area about the size of France but with a scattered population of some six million people, divided between camel and cattle-raising groups and the settled subsistence agriculture of indigenous tribes of the area such as the Fur and the Masalites. Darfur has been largely outside the development activities of Sudan’s governments. It has a weak economy and a lack of social services.
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The Majesty Of Nature #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Afternoon sunlight
Streams though gaps
In the blinds picking up
Flecks of dust floating
Slowly over the carpet.
The wind howls outside
Roaring up the coast
And the roof timbers shake.”
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Screws & Chips #61 by Thanos Kalamidas
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