Inside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hours

People inside Zamzam, North Darfur’s biggest camp for displaced people, last week. Dengue fever and malaria are sweeping through the camp. Photograph: MSF France.

Everyone knows a family that has lost a child in Zamzam, a camp for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region. Hunger and disease have become grim features of daily life, and a child is dying in the camp every two hours, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

“There have been many, I cannot remember them all. The latest died yesterday,” says Laila Ahmed, who lives in the camp with her nine children.