 When the Khartoum government refused to heed warnings of critical crop failure because they feared it would affect the administration's image abroad the Governor of the Fur-dominated administration in Darfur resigned in protest.The region was plunged into a horrific famine.When 60–80,000 Darfuris walked across the country to Khartoum seeking food, the government declared them to be Chadian refugees and trucked them to Kurdufan in "Operation Glorious Return", only to see them walk back to Khartoum as there was no food in Kurdufan.