Sudan's Darfur terror: The radio presenter who gave birth and kept walking - BBC News

A radio presenter in Sudan has a baby by the road as she flees militias she says killed her other sons.

14 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingBy Mercy Juma BBC News, AdréAfter her three sons were killed, a heavily pregnant radio presenter fled the war in Sudan's Darfur region on foot - and gave birth to a baby boy at the border crossing with Chad.

"I delivered it on the road. There were no midwives and no-one to support me. Everyone was thinking of themselves. Everyone was running to save their lives

"The baby got out, I wrapped it up. I didn't think of anything else. I continued walking to Adré," Arafa Adoum said when I met her at a refugee camp of tens of thousands of people on the outskirts of the Chadian town.

The 38-year-old said she had walked in the scorching sun for 25km (15 miles) from her hometown of El Geneina with her four daughters, while her husband had - for his own safety - taken a longer and more arduous route to reach the camp.

"When I arrived at the border I found myself wiped out and exhausted until I delivered the baby," Mrs Adoum said, pointing out that she had named her son Mohamed, after the Prophet of Islam.