‘The old die as well as the young’ – Sudanese refugee says of war at home
By Reuters
25 July 2023 |
4:06 am
Women who fled violence in Sudan’s Darfur gather around their tents in a refugee camp in the border city of Adre in Chad, from a conflict that has raged their country for 100 days. The women and their children say they escaped the violence on foot, leaving behind their burnt homes and shattered cities, and they say many men have been killed.
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