FARROW’S PLEA FOR AFRICA
LATEST: Actress MIA FARROW has launched another impassioned appeal on behalf of African victims in the over-spilling Sudan crisis.
The UNICEF goodwill ambassador has just returned from a two-week visit to the Central African Republic and Chad - the two countries bordering Sudan - and was shocked to see the hundreds of thousands of people living in poverty, and completely open to attack.
She says, "I cannot underline how dangerous, volatile and difficult the situation is for aid workers there as well as for the population.
"There was a desperate plea for water, for food, basic health care. But over all that I heard a plea for protection.
"The population was extremely traumatised, largely living in the bush." Farrow also reported seeing "burned villages after burned villages" in the area, adding, "It was numbing and dispiriting".
She pressed for an early deployment of an international peacekeeping force along Sudan’s borders.
The conflict and associated famine and disease in Darfur have left 200,000 people dead and displaced 2.5 million more, according to UN figures.
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