As Americans, we often hear about challenges Africans confront, but we don’t always understand what we can do to help. When I heard about the crisis in Darfur, I knew I had to get involved. In 2007, I decided to see firsthand how the conflict in Darfur was affecting its people. I traveled to eastern Chad with Enough Co-founder John Prendergast and Enough Policy Advisor Omer Ismail to find out what I could do to help. I was not prepared for what I experienced when I arrived.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, is battling many challenges to help hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by conflict in Darfur, Sudan. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, visited eastern Chad in December 2006 and West Darfur in April 2007, while United Nations Messenger of Peace George Clooney visited refugee camps in eastern Chad in 2008 and February 2009. Learn more out UNHCR’s work.

In honor of World Refugee Day, which will be commemorated on Saturday,
June 20, the U.N. refugee agency will today release its annual report
with the updated figures of displaced people worldwide. Enough will
attend this morning’s briefing with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
Antonio Guterres, who will present UNHCR’s Global Trends report (link
to come soon). Check out Enough's coverage of the briefing on Twitter
at #WorldRefugeeDay.

We recently traveled to Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad for the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program. Djabal is one of two Darfuri refugee camps in southeastern Chad and is only accessible by plane or by unpaved roads.

It seems there may be a campaign underway to rid Mogadishu of its independent media. Recent reports highlight the increasing harassment and intimidation of journalists in Mogadishu.