Sudan

Tens of thousands of people in Darfur on the run

For three weeks romp in the westsudanesischen crisis-hit again fierce battles. Women and children suffer the most. UN staff speak of the highest number of IDPs since a decade.

A young mother hopes, in a refugee camp, is taken to be (file picture)

In the westsudanesischen troubled region of Darfur since mid-January at least 38,000 people, mainly women and children, in fierce Fighting fled. According to the responsible spokesperson of the United Nations (UN), Samantha Newport, looked most close to the UN military base in Sortony in North Darfur refuge. The UN feared that South of the secluded mountainous region of Jebel Marra, where the battles rage, up to 50,000 more people on the run.

The UN coordinator for humanitarian Affairs, Marta Ruedas, spoke of a desperate situation of the people. It was terrible, the refugees lacked it “virtually all,” he lamented.

Government forces against SLA rebels

In the Region of Jebel Marra fighting for three weeks, government forces of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and rebels of a sub-group of the Sudanese liberation army (SLA). The army uses fighter jets and heavy artillery.

Since 2003, our fight, regardless of various mediation and peace initiatives of the UN in the crisis-hit Darfur rebel groups against the Sudanese army and by Arab Militias. The rebels accuse them of the oppression of the non-Arab population. According to UN estimates has so far been at least 300,000 people killed.

The International criminal court in The Hague has because of the conflict warrant of arrest against President al-Bashir issued. It be genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur accused.

se/yy (afp, dpa)