Chad / Refugee girls from Sudan’s Darfur region walk through the tents’ alleys in Kounoungou camp, eastern Chad. UNHCR just tranfered them and their families from the Birak area, located only 5 kms away from the border with Sudan. An estimated 13,000 people arrived in eastern Chad throughout the month of February escaping aerial bombings and ground attacks by janjaweed. The first attacks started on February 8th in Seliah, Sirba and Abu Suruj, north of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. Additionnal attacks also took place later that month in the Jebel Moon area. Thousands of people found refugee across the border in Chad in the Birak area around 11 villages including in Seneit, Figuera, Bagar Katala, Djatak, Himera. Kounoungou camp, March 13, 2008. / UNHCR / H. Caux