Chad: As New Conflict Unleashes Darfur’s Old Demons, Those Who Can Flee to Chad

Koufroun, Chad — ‘If you have nothing to give them, they will kill you.’

As clashes continue between the military forces vying for political power in Khartoum, some of Sudan’s worst violence has taken place in the western region of Darfur, with those fleeing to Chad describing desperate civilians cut off from help and struggling to escape fighting between rival militias.

In El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, close to 200 people have reportedly been killed in the past few weeks in…