BANGUI, May 29 (Reuters) - An estimated 3,000 Sudanese refugees driven from their homes by fighting in Darfur trekked for 10 days through the bush to seek shelter in Central African Republic, United Nations officials said on Tuesday.
The refugees told a U.N. team in the northeastern town of Sam-Ouandja, some 80 km (50 miles) from the Sudanese border, that a ground and air attack had forced all 15,000 inhabitants of the southern Darfur town of Dafak to flee their homes.
Most of them headed south within Sudan, but some fled westward into Central African Republic, an arduous journey of more than 200 kilometres (125 miles) following a track accessible only on foot or by horse. Read more >>>>>>>>>>
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