Hell in Darfur

Hell in Darfur Violence in Darfur is intensifying, the UN reports 300,000 dead in the conflict so far; another tide of refugees is flooding across the border to camps in Eastern Chad, but the region is near collapse.
""I don't believe this situation is sustainable,"" reveals Jorge Holly of the UN, ""the best solution is for the refugees to return to Darfur"." But Government backed Janjaweed attacks on villages have increased in the last weeks, and newly arrived EU troops are yet to make an impact. Akabr Abdallah and his family are newly arrived in Chad. They gaze at the camp they believe may be their home for up to ten years, "there are so many soldiers, how can we hope for peace?" Eastern Chad's limited resources are under massive pressure. Environmental damage caused by the hundreds of thousands of displaced is huge, and the local population is angry.

Local mother Noura Shogaar tells us, ""We are scared of the refugees because they bring security problems and food shortages."" The men do try to return home, but they leave their families vulnerable to violence within the restive camps. Caught between increasing security problems within Chad, and orchestrated ethnic violence in Darfur, these refugees are at the end of the road. The international community must find "a definite solution in Darfur."
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