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GENEVA, Swaziland, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- An estimated 3,000 additional Sudanese refugees arrived in Chad's Birak region, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced Friday.
Last week's arrival of 3,000 people from West Darfur brought the number of Sudanese refugees from the area to 13,000 since fighting began Feb. 8, KUNA reported.
The new refugees left the Jebel Moun region of West Darfur after numerous militia ground and air attacks, agency spokesperson Ron Redmond said.
Redmond said an agency mission to travel into Birak was canceled Friday because of inter-ethnic conflict near Kulbus in eastern Chad.
The refugee agency is waiting for the government's permission to transport the refugees to existing camps, Redmond said.
The agency and partners head 12 eastern Chad refugee camps for 240,000 individuals driven from their homes by the past five years of unrest in Darfur, the report said.
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