Displaced Sudanese go hungry in refugee town

Crouching over a small wood-scrap fire in Sudan's war-battered Darfur region, Aziza Ismail Idris stirs a pot of watery porridge — the only food her family have had for days.

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“No organisation has come. No water, no food -- not even a biscuit for the children,” Idris told AFP, her voice brittle with fatigue.

Having fled a brutal paramilitary attack last month on Zamzam, once one of Sudan's largest displacement camps, she and her five children are among the estimated 300,000 people who have since arrived in the small farming town of Tawila, according to the United Nations.

“We arrived here barefoot with nothing,” she said, recalling her escape from Zamzam camp, about a 60-kilometre (37-mile) desert trek away, also in the vast western region of Darfur.