Sudan conflict: BBC hears of horror and hunger in massacre town El Geneina

Massacres scar the Sudanese town of el-Geneina, now a near-empty city as the 19-month war grinds on.

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But its empty buildings still stand to tell their shocking stories, loudly and clearly.

Charred homes and shops are peppered with bullet holes. Doors are wrecked. Metal shutters are smashed. Rusting Sudanese army tanks dot the streets.

In this rare trip for international journalists into Darfur, we could still smell the fires which blazed here last year.

“It was utterly chilling to drive through these smoked-out ruins and ghost towns,” reflected the UN’s new relief chief Tom Fletcher, whose visit to this hardscrabble capital of West Darfur marked the first time a senior UN official was able to visit this territory since Sudan’s vicious war erupted 19 months ago.

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