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News •

Darfuri children fleeing violence fall into child labor • Feb. 18, 2025, 1:05 PM ET (Voice of America English News)
Sudan civil war: RSF accused of storming Darfur's Zamzam camp • Feb. 12, 2025, 4:18 AM ET (BBC)
Man recalls burying infants who starved in Sudan's Darfur camp • Feb. 11, 2025, 5:07 AM ET (Voice of America English News)
UN official says Sudan paramilitary group is preventing life-saving aid from famine-hit Darfur • Feb. 10, 2025, 3:09 AM ET (ABC News (U.S.))
Sudan: Is the bloody war heading toward an end? • Feb. 5, 2025, 1:17 AM ET (Deutsche Welle)

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Also Known As Western Darfur • Dārfūr

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Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir
president of Sudan
St. Josephine Bakhita
St. Josephine Bakhita
Roman Catholic saint
Rudolf Karl, baron von Slatin
governor of The Sudan
William George Browne
British explorer