Homes torched, displaced cry for aid in Sudan's Darfur
 

https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/I...e14a831f8c.jpgFirst their homes were torched, and **w the people themselves are burning, huddled under crude shelters to escape Sudan's fierce desert sun after fleeing Darfur's worst violence in a decade. "We got here three weeks ago from **rth of Mellit town but until **w we haven't got any aid," said Mohammedin Ishaq, 60, an elder among the more than 8,000 people the UN says have reached Zam Zam camp about 12 kilometres (seven miles) southwest of El Fasher, the capital of **rth Darfur state. They initially ordered away an AFP reporter who, despite tight government restrictions on the movement of journalists in Darfur, reached their parched refuge to obtain a rare first-hand account of their condition. Their home, Mellit, is about 75 kilometres **rth of Zam Zam, Darfur's largest camp for many of the two million people who had already fled violence in the region's 11-year conflict.




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