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.
people have been killed in Darfur since Monday in inter-communal violence rekindled by the conflict, according to the U.N. human rights office.
Her sister and mother heard from a neighbour that she was about to give birth. They rushed to her rescue. "We let her rest for a while, and then we continued on to here," Souraya Adam said, speaking at the Koufroun refugee camp in Chad.
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