In Darfur: "A Ghost Town"

Christian Science Monitor correspondent Katharine Houreld reports from Tine, Sudan, a town on the border between Darfur and Chad. Houreld reports that the Sudanese government has apparently remobilized the janjaweed militias, despite a peace agreement signed last May. Houreld writes:

Once home to 70,000 people, Tine has been emptied by a series of bombing raids and Sudanese government attacks over the past two years. Today, its terrified inhabitants huddle on the other side of a dry riverbed under flimsy stick-and-plastic shelters in a camp that marks the border with Chad. From just a few hundred yards away, they watch their abandoned adobe homes collapse with the passing seasons.