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Refugees flee into Chad

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    According to UNHCR, 4,000 Sudanese have fled western Darfur into Chad. They have settled in the Adre region and are in a “very precarious situation”, a UNHCR spokesman told IRIN today. Arab and African communities clashed last month near the Darfur border town of al-Geneina in a dispute over grazing land. The fighting has so far left 108 people dead and 40 wounded, AFP reported today. More than 50 villages were destroyed and at least 1,600 families left homeless. President Omar al-Bashir has declared a state of emergency in the area.

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