A radio presenter in Sudan has a baby by the road as she flees militias she says killed her other sons.
After her three sons were killed, a heavily pregnant radio presenter fled the war in Sudan's Darfur region on foot - and gave birth to a baby boy at the border crossing with Chad.
"When I arrived at the border I found myself wiped out and exhausted until I delivered the baby," Mrs Adoum said, pointing out that she had named her son Mohamed, after the Prophet of Islam. "We tried to defend ourselves, but they were using very big weapons," said Sheikh Mohammed Yagoub, an influential Muslim cleric and Massalit leader, who has also become a refugee in Adré.The RSF denied involvement in the fighting, but said that Darfur was witnessing the resurgence an old conflict between Arab groups and the Massalit.
The sheikh's wife, Rakhiya Adum Abdelkarim, told me that she had also been pregnant, but she lost her baby the day after reaching Adré - a walk that left her hungry, exhausted and weak. One of the patients, Naima Ali, said she and her nine-month-old son were shot by a RSF sniper as they fled their village.
The conflict had caused global outrage, with the International Criminal Court indicting Sudan's then-ruler Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denied.
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