RSF forced exodus from Sudan’s Zamzam leaves Tawila ’desperate’

RSF forced exodus from Sudan’s Zamzam leaves Tawila ’desperate’

The town of Tawila in North Darfur has become a major refuge for displaced people following the mass exodus from Zamzam refugee camp in April, creating what Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has described as a "desperate" humanitarian situation. MSF told The New Arab that approximately 500,000 people were now sheltering in and around Tawila. Services in the town have been rapidly scaled up to cope with the influx. Kaylene Tomkins, MSF’s medical team…

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More than 40,000 Sudanese have fled to eastern Chad in the past month to escape intensifying violence in Darfur.