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Popular Features: Darfur’s Inferno

 

The 2007 Darfur situation has brought humiliation to today’s international relations and peace keeping. With the number of refugees accumulating and thousands running up to mountains and other untenable regions to find shelter, Sudan is in the midst of a modern day holocaust. ‘Darfur’s Inferno’ provides enlightenment on the anxieties that paralyze the Sudanese youth and government by revealing the refugees’ 6 months epic walk to shelter in the Nuba Mountains.

 

 

The jury said:

“Damien Lewis showed real journalistic commitment in finding a new angle to tell the story of what is one of the greatest human tragedies of our time. The challenge of Darfur for the media is how to keep engaging an emotionally fatigued audience. After 40 visits to the Sudan in ten years, Damien Lewis has done just that. A special mention for Rachel Oldroyd who also commissioned another finalist for the Mail on Sunday.”

 

Damien Lewis said:

"The One World Awards are the equivalent of the Oscars for those journalists and film makers who work in the developing world and in war and conflict areas. I'm hugely honoured to be awarded the Popular Features Award, and feel it doubly important as the winning article was about Darfur - the world's greatest on-going humanitarian tragedy. It's also important to note that the article that won was published in the Mail on Sunday colour supplement, Live Magazine, which is a mass-market and mass-circulation publication. This goes to show that issues like Darfur can, when told in new and revealing ways, reach millions of readers. That's the challenge before us all, to keep making these stories relevant and real to our readership. When I interviewed an 8-year old girl who was a multiple rape victim in Darfur, last November, then I knew that that challenge had to be met."

 

Rachel Oldroyd, Commissioning Editor said:

“The Mail on Sunday's Live magazine is delighted to have been recognised by the One World awards. We always felt Damien Lewis's article about the horrors of Darfur was a classic piece of brilliant reportage which brought to life a very difficult, over exposed, yet extremely important subject. It is always difficult to cover such important issues in a populist way. As commissioning editor of the reportage section at Live magazine I have endeavoured to cover many humanitarian issues in a dramatic and refreshing way that will appeal to the millions of Mail on Sunday readers. The One World award is a great endorsement of what we are trying to do and it was certainly a great honour to have the affirmation of the One World judges.”

 

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