Women and children hide beneath a tree in the North Darfur village of Um Baru to escape being spotted by a drone. For five hours the drone hovered above them, dropping a string of bombs that killed villagers. Here, anxious mothers comfort their terrified daughters as the attack drone buzzes overhead.
Photograph: Jérôme Tubiana
As ethnic slaughter engulfed Darfur, huge numbers of people streamed west over the border to Chad to escape the RSF. Newly arrived refugees built shelters in makeshift camps within the Chadian border town of Adré. By the time this image was taken in September 2023, more than 120,000 had already fled Darfur. Most arrivals were from the Masalit community, victims of an RSF and Arab militia rampage in which up to 15,000 people were killed in West Darfur’s capital, Geneina.
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