Darfur Refugees in Cairo

Feelings of betrayal by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and emotionally distressed Sudanese refugees in Cairo.

Thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Cairo, Egypt in the wake of Sudanese civil conflicts. Sudanese refugees were evaluated with respect to symptoms of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and social stress. Four respondents (22%) indicated that their interactions with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cairo, Egypt were the worst experiences since ...

Beyond depoliticization and resistance: refugees, humanitarianism, and political agency in neoliberal Cairo

Canine leptospirosis in Cairo.

Mortality in Darfur: Lessons for Humanitarian Policy

In recent years there has been considerable debate over how best to formulate reliable estimates of confl ict mortality rates. However, in formulating humanitarian policy to respond to violent confl icts it is important to go beyond crude mortality rates to look at the causes and timings of deaths. This Policy Briefi ng presents the results of a MICROCON study on Darfur which disaggregates caus...

Darfur overshadows "forgotten" crisis in neighbouring Uganda.

on mosquito nets and insecticides. “Some countries tax mosquito nets at the same rate as an Armani suit. At the Abuja summit all the African heads of state agreed to stop this but few countries have followed this through,” De Savigny said adding: “Tanzania was one country that did so and now has one of the highest net coverages in Africa. In comparison, Nigeria still applies a 70% tax on nets”....