East Darfur villages burned, residents displaced

On Monday morning, 98 displaced villagers from the Labado area in East Darfur arrived at camp Kalma East. The fled their homes when pro-government militiamen burned their villages on Friday. Saleh Mohamed Issa, the Secretary-General of the Kalma camps told Radio Dabanga that the newcomers came from the villages of Chawa and Tebeldiyat Timan. Issa said that the newly displaced reported that in addition to the villages, vast areas of farms were destroyed. Abdel Jabbar Adam Suleiman and Juma Yousif Adam were seriously injured in the attacks. Issa added that the new arrivals have warned of more people fleeing to the camps. On Saturday, a group of herders burned Chawa village, a couple of kilometres east of Labado in East Darfur. “The incident occurred in the backdrop of a conflict between pastoralists and farmers and has created tension in the area,” Issa reported to Radio Dabanga on Sunday. Camp fire On Monday, a fire broke out in the camp itself. It completely destroyed 31 houses. Issa told Radio Dabanga that the fire broke out at Centre 8. “The affected families are currently living in the open without shelter, cover or food. He said that they informed the humanitarian organisations operating in the camp as well as Unamid of the incident. File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid Related: Militiamen leave trail of murder and robbery across Darfur (25 November 2014)