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NSTworld: But Nour has heard all the promises before and long given up hope of returning to the village she was forced to flee at the start of the fighting

She is talking on the eve of a visit by the premier - Abdalla Hamdok - who is coming to set out his plans to settle the near 17-year-old conflict in the west Sudanese region and repair the damage done by ousted president Omar al-Bashir.

But it is still too dangerous for families to go back and for things to return to how they were, says Nour. The makeshift camps that housed hundreds of thousands at the height of the violence have grown walls and infrastructure and solidified into settlements, making it harder to persuade people to resume long-abandoned lives.

“Our conditions for a return are security, peace, education, health care,” 21-year Ahmed Ibrahim tells Reuters during the visit. He was 10 when his family fled.Since then the transitional government has asked the United Nations and the African Union to keep operating their joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur - a force that Bashir was trying to shut down.But diplomats say the sides hare having to wrestle with a conflict that has changed and fractured.

 

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