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Sunset over East Sudan
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Beja girls on donkey along the Eritrean Sudanese border, near the Sawa river.
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Despite being home to Sudan's oil export pipeline via Port Sudan, infrastructure in rural East Sudan is non existent. This is the main road north from the liberated territories.
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Desertification has only increased the feelings of marginalisation in the East that led to war.
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Illiteracy reaches 90%. Only 12% of the already few who go to school are girls. But the war has brought change, and the Beja are beginning to accept female education.
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Child mortality soars to twice that of Darfur.
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Beja boy on a camel.
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Aid is distributed via camel. Although conditions have now deteriorated and food aid is no longer arriving.
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A Beja fighter shows an Iranian made mine laid by the Sudan Armed Forces in his village.
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Finding water is a major challenge in the East. Traditionally, families would survive by moving to find water. Now, landmines litter the region and the populations and it is too dangerous to travel. Here, a joint NGO project brings some respite. But for many, it is too little too late.
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The Beja Congress have opened schools in the liberated territories. They are the very first formal non religious education institutions in the area.
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Unable to forge change; a beja traditional leader.
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A new well offers hope.
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A boy waits by a well under construction.
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The most celebrated of Beja musicians, Yahiya Adroop, performs in his hostel in Asmara. His friend performs a Beja dance, imitating the movements of a camel.
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Beja camel jockies race past an old oil rig. Camels are central to Beja life, facilitating trade, providing nutrition, raw materials, and here, entertainment.
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Published November 2, 2007

Photographs by Th. Goisque

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