International donors have pledged more than $3.5 billion to help rebuild the region, but nothing substantial can be done while clashes go on and until the military regime that replaced Bashir spells out its intentions.
The visit preceded the April 11 ouster of President Bashir, whose regime long battled a mixed bag of rebel groups in Darfur. Smiling in his neatly ironed shirt, he spoke of “big ambitions”, including going to university to study law “to be able at last to reclaim what is ours, our land and our lives.”Chad has taken Sudanese youths into its educational system since 2014. At Treguine, 60 fortunate people have obtained grants to go to the Adam Barka University in Abeche, the provincial capital.
“They’re the same Masalit population,” said Adoum Mahamat Ahmat, head of the local office of the National Commission for the Welcome and Reinsertion of Refugees . First and foremost, he insisted that Bashir — who has been transferred to prison, a member of his family said on Wednesday — go on trial and “be brought to book for the crimes committed”.