The Darfur crisis has displaced 2.5 million people, left around 400,000 dead and left around around four million people are currently dependent on aid. It is now recognised as the world's greatest humanitarian disasters and yet in spite of the most recent peace talk and sanctions against the Sudanese government, regarded as responsible for much of what has been happening.
Act for Darfur hosted an 11 hour arts festival at the Tricycle theatre aiming to inform, inspire and equip visitors to take action about the crisis. There were debates with the key NGOs and experts in international development, three documentaries were screened, there was a photography exhibition, a storyteller telling traditional Darfur and Sudanese tales, a new play was commission for the event and actress Mia Farrow came to give the key note address.
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