Darfur articles
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‘Hiroshima-level casualties’ feared in final battle for North Darfur
The capital of North Darfur could be about to fall to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces as they fight the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country's year-long civil war.
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2 decades on, new atrocities in Darfur trigger a mass influx of refugees into Chad
More than 579,000 Sudanese refugees have escaped to Chad since April, pushing the country’s refugee population over the 1 million mark which is more than Chad ever hosted in the past 20 years.
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Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda: the man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence
As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the borderEvery night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.The operation was an extraordinary act of bravery and selflessness: Mukhtar is an Arab, and the people he was...