Help! Spectre of genocide looms once again over Darfur

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Displaced Sudanese people sit at Zamzam camp in North Darfur, August 1, 2024. PHOTO | REUTERS

Some 20 years ago, the Darfur region of Sudan was in the throes of a brutal war against rebel African groups protesting their economic and political marginalisation.

Arab militias known as the Janjaweed joined the central government to quell the rebellion, and the repression soon metastasised into ethnic cleansing — and, some say, genocide.