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A group of Sudanese women walk into the Internally Displaced Camp (IDP) of Mourni, carrying loads of firewood 24 October 2004. Mourni the largest camp in West Darfur, homes over 70,000 IDPs close to the border with Chad. More than 500,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of an estimated one million in Sudan live in encampments in western Darfur. The Sudanese government is accused of arming and backing the Arab Janjaweed militias which have rampaged through the region for the past 20 months. An estimated 50,000 people have been killed and 1.4 million more uprooted in a campaign against Darfur's black African population, which began in February 2003 when Khartoum and the Janjaweed attempted to crush a rebel uprising among indigenous ethnic minorities. AFP PHOTO/Cris BOURONCLE (Photo by CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP) (Photo by CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP via Getty Images)