CaptionDisplaced people wait for food distribution near the village of Habile. Attacks by the Janjaweed, an Arab militia said to be backed by the Sudanese government, spread from the Darfur region of Sudan across the border to Chad. Janjaweed on horseback burnt the villages of black African farmers on both sides of the border, killing and raping inhabitants in a pattern of ethnic violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands.
