Survivors' stories
Around four million people have been affected by fierce internal fighting in Darfur, Sudan. Many have fled their homes and are suffering severe hunger. The Red Cross is distributing food aid to the most vulnerable across the region.
Penny's story: Saving Nazradeen
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 | | | Penny Connley, a Red Cross nurse, supervises a therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children in a camp for 130,000 people displaced by fighting in South Darfur.
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Halima's story: Saving her daughter
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 | | | Halima Ahmed has lived at a camp for people displaced by fighting in South Darfur for years. Her malnourished youngest daughter Fatma has been admitted to a therapeutic feeding programme run by the Red Cross.
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Nura's story: Feeding her family
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 | | | Next month, what little food Nura Bashar Ali was able to save from last year’s pitiful harvest will be gone. A year ago, her remote village, Sawani, and its neighbour Tungula, were destroyed during fighting.
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Hallum's story: Surviving diarrhoea
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 | | | When six-year-old Halima first carried her little sister, Hallum, in to the Red Cross clinic in Darfur, Sudan, nurse Maree Dunn didn’t think the tiny two-year-old would survive the night.
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 | | | Like many affected by the resurgence of conflict in the Central African Republic, Kayma Victor was forced to leave his home in Kabandja village, with his wife and two children.
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