Farrow asks for aid for Darfur crisis
Performers from Darfur’s various ethnic African and Arab tribes greeted Mia Farrow with dancing and singing as she arrived in Nyala, Sudan’s remote western region, to appeal for international aid for 2.5 million refugees.
“Darfur is a humanitarian crisis of an order of magnitude I never witnessed before, and the picture is far more bleak today than since my last visit,” in November 2004, said Farrow, 61, a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
Farrow, whose screen credits include “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Great Gatsby,” said scenes of human suffering had haunted her since her previous trip.
“I never spend a day without thinking about it....It’s impossible to put Darfur out of one’s mind,” she said Sunday.
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