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Inside Sudan’s biggest refugee camp

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Mohanad Hashim goes to Kalma camp, home to 200,000 people displaced by 20 years of conflict in Darfur.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Mohanad Hashim is one of the first journalists to travel freely in Sudan's Darfur region in a decade. It's suffered 20 years of conflict, with 2 million people forced from their homes. Mohanad visited Kalma, the largest camp in Darfur.

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Image: The women of Kalma camp, Darfur
Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

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