Sudan's Darfur refugees wonder when their turn will come

Heat and dust: Treguine camp in eastern Chad houses 25,000 refugees from Darfur, in neighbouring Sudan. Some have languished there for 15 years. [AFP]

"When we arrived here, there were TV crews and photographers, but now nobody comes," said Abdallah, amazed to see a journalist turn up at his Sudanese refugee camp in Chad.

He fled over the border from Sudan's western Darfur region in 2004, a year after the armed forces and their allies, the Janjaweed horseback militia, began their murderous assault on non-Arab people.