Truemors
A dust cloud blew across the market of the Abu Chok refugee camp in
Darfur as Ahmed Abdullah Ibrahim summed up his desperate situation. "It
is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," he said, his
face wrapped up against the desert winds in a white headscarf. "Even
yesterday, we had people in the camp come to attack us. They came in
and fired shots."
Ibrahim's dilemma is repeated at more than 100
similar camps across Darfur - a region of western Sudan as big as
France - and it is one that is focusing renewed scrutiny of the
international response to a crisis that has already claimed at least
200,000 lives and forced an estimated 2.5 million people to flee their
homes.
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