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The Great Battle for Resources(21 images)
  • June 25, 2008. Iriba, Chad...A a boy sits in a tree in the middle of the Darfur refugee camp of Iridimi. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 24, 2008, Camp Iridimi, Iriba, Chad...Darfuri Refugees working for local NGO Adesk sort dead wood to be used as cooking fuel. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 28, 2008, Eastern Chad...Local laborers collect firewood for Chadian NGO ADESK to deliver to the Darfur refugee camp Iridimi for use as cooking fuel. <br />
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The rapid influx of 250,000 refugess from Sudan has contributed to the desertification of the northern Sahel region and poses a serious environmental hazard as the Sahara advances 5 to 10 kilometers every year. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 28, 2008, Eastern Chad...Local laborers collect firewood for Chadian NGO ADESK to deliver to the Darfur refugee camp Iridimi for use as cooking fuel. Twice a day, a truck travels some 60 kilometers outside the camps to fetch firewood for the refugees. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 24, 2008, Camp Iridimi, Iriba, Chad...Darfuri Refugees working for local NGO Adesk deposit dead wood to be rationed for families. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 24, 2008, Camp Iridimi, Chad. ..A Sudanese refugee points in the direction of a truck delivering more firewood to the camps. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 25, 2008, Camp Iridimi, Iriba, Chad...A Darfuri refugee uses a "Save 80 Stove" to make tea, a stove that economizes 80 percent of the wood used. At 100 US dollars per stove, it is often used more as a trading piece than as a stove. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • Camp Iridimi, June 24, 2008. Chad..A Sudanese refugee does the rain dance. Each year the rainy season seems to be shorter and shorter. As the desert continues to advance, locals and refugees struggle to grow crops. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • Camp Iridimi, June 24, 2008. Chad..Sudanese refugees take water from the camp well. ..Water is scarce in eastern Chad, and the influx of 250,000 Darfuri refugees to the region has often been the subject of disputes between locals and the refugees. Each year the rainy season seems to be shorter and shorter. As the desert continues to advance and the Sahel falls prey to increasing desertification, the environmental crisis is of great concern to aid agencies in the area. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 27, 2008. Iriba, Eastern Chad...Locals collect water from a well where refgees also come to get their fill. Water is scarce in eastern Chad, and the influx of 250,000 Darfuri refugees to the region has often been the subject of disputes between locals and the refugees. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 29, 2008. Iriba, Eastern Chad...Young boys play with water recently accumulated in the wadi (dry river beds) as the rainy season appraoches. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 24, 2008, Camp Iridimi, Iriba, Chad...Darfuri Refugees working for CARE International tend to seedlings in a nursery where they grow trees in an effort to combat the firewood shortage crisis. With rain shortages and long growth periods (3 yrs.) however, it doesn't promise to have much of an impact on the crisis. It is estimated that within one year, there will be no more firewood in the region. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 27, 2008. Iriba, Eastern Chad..,A Chadian girl sits by her donkeys at a well. Scarcity of water in the region makes it difficult for people to grow crops, and take care of their animals. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • June 27, 2008, Iriba, Chad...EUFOR troops come every second day to pump water from a well built for refugees and locals by German ngo HELP. The military allows for approximately 100 liters of water per head a day against the 6 liters each refugee gets, compounding the water shortage in the area. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 2, 2008, Eastern Chad...EUFOR troops journeying from Iriba to Abeche pass a convoy of five unidentified armed vehicles. EUFOR troops cannot engage the enemy but their presence is meant to deter criminal activity. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 7, 2008, Abeche, Chad...A soldier in the French EUFOR contingent stands guard during a convoy security drill. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 1, 2008, Eastern Chad, near Iriba...Sudanese rebels, the Toro Boro, tear through the Darfuri refugee camp Am Nabak. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 1, 2008, Eastern Chad, near Iriba...Daniel Ngassala Dowrandi, Adjudant Chef of the CNAR Gendarmes(Commission Nationale d'Acceuil de Réfugiés) for camp Am Nabak, indicates the security plan the Polish contingent of EUFOR has promised for his camp, as two Sudanese vigilante watchdogs look on. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 12, 2008, Eastern Chad, near Farchana..Soldiers of the 7eme Batallion de Chasseurs Alpins discuss the local security situation with the village leaders of Koukou. Bandits have destroyed crops and attacked their people in the great battle for resources and land. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 12, 2008, Eastern Chad, near Farchana...Soldiers of the 7eme Batallion de Chasseurs Alpins go on patrol to a nearby village KoKo where acts of banditry have threatened to local and refugee populations trying to grow crops. By photographer Anne Holmes
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  • July 7, 2008, Abeche, Chad...A soldier in the French contingent of EUFOR stands guard during military exercises. By photographer Anne Holmes
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