Large-scale destruction caused by Arab militias in western Sudan is now visible from space.
Over 90,000 people have fled violence in Darfur across the border with Chad, according to the UNHCREntire villages in Sudan's West Darfur region have been burned to the ground by marauding militias, with aid agencies now warning the region is on the brink of a "humanitarian catastrophe".
Those unable to flee the war have been digging ditches around their neighbourhoods and setting up barricades to keep out militia fighters who have been destroying everything in their path.Satellite images obtained by the BBC confirm that a village near Nyala in South Darfur, Abu Adam, has been completely wiped out by fire - the blackened outline visible from space.
This region was already struggling to assist hundreds of thousands of people displaced by other conflicts. Ms Piquemal has organised 13 tonnes of aid, which she hopes will involve driving a water tank to the city of El Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur region. "It's not [just] military places [to be targeted] as we saw in Khartoum at the beginning," she says. "It's more health facilities, schools, mosques, NGO facilities, everything that civilians can use has been burned or destroyed."
The leader of the paramilitary group, Gen Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo, has called for calm, although he did not specifically address his troops.
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