Abbala ask 3 million for dead camel found near W Darfur camp

A group of Abbala militants threatened to burn down a West Darfur camp if its residents failed to pay three million Sudanese pounds for a dead camel found in the vicinity on Monday. One of the displaced of camp Saraf Jidad in Sirba locality told Radio Dabanga they decided to compensate the Abbala men for fear of having their homes burned down. The dead camel, they said, was found about one and a half kilometers away from the camp. The same faction, a displaced said, looted four cows from residents of Saraf Jidad on Tuesday after shooting fiercely in the air. Sources are asking authorities and UNAMID to provide protection to the displaced and to put an end to the “excesses” of Abbala militias. Also on Tuesday 12 Abbala gunmen assaulted a group of six displaced from a camp in Sirba who had gone collecting firewood. The perpetrators beat the victims with whips, rifle butts and sticks and stole three of their mobile phones. The displaced are now in critical conditions receiving treatment at the camp, sources told Radio Dabanga.  Radio Dabanga file photo