Monitoring a ceasefire was always going to be a tough job but ex-marine Brian Steidle had no idea he was about to witness such a thing as modern genocide. The Devil came on Horseback is an amazing documentary, not one I say is ‘good’ particularly due to its topic but amazing nonetheless. It tells the story [...]

The Facts:
More than 90,000 are believed to have been killed during conflict with a further 200,000 thought to have died from conflict related causes (estimates of the total death toll thus far ranges between 300,000 – 450,000);
A further 2.7 million people are said to be displaced living in camps for refugees or internally displaced people [...]

I’ve recently finished reading a book about a translator, a tribesman in Darfur caught up in the violence when his village was destroyed by helicopter gunships in 2003, when ‘the Sudanese government-backed militias came to murder, rape and burn’ and drive the tribesmen from their lands. The Translator, his name Daoud Hari, is a Zaghawi who [...]