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Darfur: one year on there is still no peace

The Darfur Peace Agreement reached its first anniversay last week, yet rebel groups have mushroomed, millions of displaced people fear they�ll never make it home alive and the Sudanese government stands in the way of a solution. By Steve Bloomfield in Nyala, south Darfur

THERE was singing and dancing in Gereida yesterday. The largest camp for Darfur's displaced, a sprawling barren scrubland populated by some 120,000 people forced out of their homes by Arab militia and government soldiers, is not used to celebrations.