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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
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Description: Women in a Souk (Market) in one of the camps.

Keywords: economic indicators, human settlements, shelter, gender, poverty, livelihoods

Title: School children in the Mandela camp for internally displaced persons in Khartoum state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The combined effects of conflict and food insecurity have caused over five million Sudanese to be displaced into camps and urban fringes

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, food shortage, food security, Khartoum state, human settlements

Title: Settlements like Malka in Northern Darfur are already on the margins of survival
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: A small reduction in rainfall could suffice to render large parts of the semi-arid desert fringe unviable. Land degradation is clearly visible as large swathes of bare red subsoil

Keywords: desertification, deserts, drought, land degradation, soil degradation, food security, Northern Darfur state, human settlements, livelihoods

Title: Displaced populations settle on the outskirts of existing towns, as here in El Fasher, Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The new settlement is distinguished by white plastic sheeting. These new arrivals add to the environmental burden on the surrounding desert environment

Keywords: armed conflicts, environmental risks, internally displaced people, refugees, war, deserts, land degradation, soil degradation, El Fasher, Northern Darfur state, human settlements, population

Title: There are nearly 2 million displaced persons in Darfur, in large settlements such as Abu Shouk in El Fasher, Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: armed conflicts, internally displaced people, refugees, war, asylum, Abu Shouk, El Fasher, Northern Darfur state, human settlements, shelter

Title: The water container queue at a wellpoint in Abu Shouk camp
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Each water point services over a thousand people

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, war, drinking water, water supply, Abu Shouk, El Fasher, Northern Darfur state, human settlements

Title: IDP camp residents told UNEP that they would rather remain in the Port Sudan area than return home
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, Port Sudan, Red Sea state, human settlements, education, livelihoods

Title: The IDP camps are all located on the fringes of town, facing waterless plains
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Over the last four years, they have gradually become extensions of the town, which is benefiting economically from the associated influx of aid and labour

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, land degradation, soil degradation, El Geneina, Western Darfur state, human settlements

Title: Large-scale informal settlements have multiplied in the Khartoum area since the 1980s
Date created: 22 Jun 2007
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Description: Most of these settlements have very limited access to water, and no sewage of waste management

Keywords: environmental health, public health, Khartoum, Khartoum state, human settlements, urbanisation, land tenure, domestic wastes, environmental sanitation, sewage disposal, sewerage, solid waste management, waste disposal, waste treatment, waste management

Title: Open air burning is the most common method of waste disposal in settlements such as this one on the southern fringe of Khartoum
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: environmental health, Khartoum, Khartoum state, human settlements, urbanisation, domestic wastes, solid waste management, waste disposal, waste management