Internally displaced persons (IDPs) wait to get water at the Al-Abassi camp for IDPs in Mellit town, North Darfur March 25, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations and African Union officials sounded an alarm on Thursday over the worsening violence in Sudan's western Darfur region, which has led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people this year in the remote, conflict-torn territory.
The expressions of concern came as a U.S. activist group released an analysis of new satellite images that it said showed signs of devastation in an area of Darfur in which Khartoum-backed Janjaweed fighters were recently present.
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