Monday, February 12, 2007

Darfur: The First Glimpse

Dear Newton,

Did you know Darfur is in Africa? Darfur is a state in a country Sudan. Sudan is the largest country in Africa with a population of 39 million people. Darfur, in western Sudan, is the size of Texas and there are 6 million people living there.

We started this project because we were looking at the Web and we said that all the people should not be killed by their own people from the same country because they are not the same religion. This type of killing is called genocide.

There are 400,000 people dying in Darfur, and there are 2,500,000 people leaving there homes because there are people from there country killing there own people and because it is not safe down there.

By: Cierra, Joanne, Wyneva

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your post on Sudan is very helpful. I did not even know where it was on the map! The genocide is a sad and terrible event. Thank you for researching it and providing the information!

Anonymous said...

Hey guys, thank you for your post on Sudan. I did not know Darfur was a state, one the size of Texas no less. I thought it was a city. The genocide is a tragic event that is happening there. If you get any more information, please pass it on!