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New prime minister has work cut out bringing stability to war-torn Darfur

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Abdalla Hamdok and his transitional government face huge challenges as they try to bring the region in western Sudan out of decades of diplomatic and financial isolation

A diplaced Sudanese boy walks through the market of the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons, nearly 20km north of El Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur state, on November 5 2019. Picture: AFP/ASHRAF SHAZLY

But Nour has heard all the promises before and long given up hope of returning to the village she was forced to flee at the start of the fighting. “When some ... went [back] farming they got attacked at night in their houses and killed,” Nour says. She now lives in a camp outside El Fasher. Other families lost their cattle when their farms were seized in the first fighting, so whole livelihoods have gone.

And the societal and ethnic divisions that fuelled the worst of the conflict are still there in the background.A day later, Hamdok draws a crowd of hundreds as he tours Zam Zam camp just outside El Fasher on Monday. Rebels have fallen out and splintered with some now fighting for cash in Libya. Arab tribes have been competing among themselves as water resources dwindle, fuelling conflicts between farmers and nomads. Banditry is rife.

 

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