When violence erupted in Darfur in 2004, Bahja Ahmed and her five young children were forced to leave their village. They had spent 12 years living in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in North Darfur State and returned to their home village in 2018 following the signing of the Doha Peace Agreement. “We returned to our homeland with hope to regain what we lost during the conflict and displacement, but unfortunately we lack basic services.
Our health centre was also destroyed during the war,” said Bahja. To obtain health care, she had to travel long distances by lorry or donkey to the nearest city and pay for services.