Zamzam camp leaders on Tuesday gave the Darfur authorities one day to do something about recurrent attacks by gunmen in the area, after a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped in the vicinity of the camp.
Zamzam camp, 15 km south of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, is one of the largest camps for displaced people in the region. Residents have been complaining about the rampant insecurity in the area for a long time. To back their demands for protection and better services in the camp, they set up a large sit-in in mid-August, and blocked traffic from entering the El Fasher-Nyala road.