‘Pro-government militia blocks road’ near South Darfur camp
A sheikh of El Salam camp near Nyala said pro-government militia blocked on Friday a road connecting the site to Bielel locality. On the same day, he added, militiamen cut off the road connecting Tabeldia and Umm Gonja villages, also in South Darfur.Sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya told Radio Dabanga that pro-government militia invaded El Salam camp on Thursday night and began firing shots in the air “inciting fear in the hearts of the displaced”.The next morning, the gunmen closed off the two roads preventing residents of El Salam from going to work or shopping at the Bielel weekly Friday market.Sheikh Tabaldiya is appealing to the government and Unamid to protect the displaced from attacks by militias, which he says “have become a big concern for all of those who fled their home villages”. File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid
A sheikh of El Salam camp near Nyala said pro-government militia blocked on Friday a road connecting the site to Bielel locality. On the same day, he added, militiamen cut off the road connecting Tabeldia and Umm Gonja villages, also in South Darfur.
Sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya told Radio Dabanga that pro-government militia invaded El Salam camp on Thursday night and began firing shots in the air “inciting fear in the hearts of the displaced”.
The next morning, the gunmen closed off the two roads preventing residents of El Salam from going to work or shopping at the Bielel weekly Friday market.
Sheikh Tabaldiya is appealing to the government and Unamid to protect the displaced from attacks by militias, which he says “have become a big concern for all of those who fled their home villages”.
File photo by Albert González Farran/Unamid
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