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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Mahamat Ramadane

A race to the border after childbirth as fighting forces Sudanese to flee

FILE PHOTO: Zamzam Adam, 23, a Sudanese, who says she gave birth while fleeing the violence in her country, sits holding her baby among her belongings near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Mahamat Ramadane/File Photo

As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad.

The conflict between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has not spared her village Ayatine, in western Darfur region where a two-decade-old conflict and simmering violence has been re-ignited by the fighting.

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