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26 January 2010 - Shangel Tubaya: Around 3.000 new Internal Displaced People (IDP) came two months ago from 30 different towns (between North and South Darfur) to settle down in Shangel Tubaya. Most of them are women and children and their men are fighting in their villages. Women from rival tribes life in the same IDP camp while their husbands are killing to each other. The life conditions are really hard (few water points, no food, no health, houses made with branches and plastic...) and the IDP leaders claim for aid to UN agencies and NGOs

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