Sudanese continue to flee Darfur violence in dire circumstances

A Sudanese girl who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, and was previously internally displaced in the country, moves past makeshift shelters, near the border between Sudan and Chad [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

Thousands of people continue to pour into Chad fleeing escalating violence in Sudan’s West Darfur state, with a United Nations official seeking access to provide urgent medical supplies, food aid and other assistance to the war-ravaged region amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.

“Darfur is an area we have not been able to access and there is significant fighting [there],” Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, told Al Jazeera on Saturday.