Nine displaced children reach North Darfur camp after three-day walk

A group of nine children arrived at the Zamzam camp for the displaced in North Darfur on Wednesday. They had fled the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on their villages. “The children arrived in a deplorable state at the camp, exhausted, barefoot and with torn clothes”, a camp resident told Radio Dabanga. “They fled from the villages of Mohamed Jamilallah and Hillet Kobe Gaar Jebel, and walked for three full days before they reached Zamzam camp on Wednesday.” The children were brought to the camp by Ahmed Musa Bashir (21) from the area of Kobe in Korma locality. On his flight with some of the children, they picked up other children on the way. They are Abdel Kheir Ali Musa (7), Mohamed El Aziz Musa (8), Aida Abakar Abdel Rahman (9), Rania Abdel Aziz Musa (10), Munira Mohamed Bashir (11), Maryam Musa (11), Mustafa Musa Ahmed (13), Sumaya Abdel Aziz Musa (16), and Ismail Ahmed (16). File photo: A girl in a provisionally shelter in a Darfur camp for the displaced (archive Radio Dabanga) Related: At least 15 villages raided in Kutum, North Darfur (31 March 2014) RSF attacks in Baashim, North Darfur (30 March 2014)