Photo by BBC News cameraman Glenn Middleton in Darfur.
A peace deal signed in Nigeria offered hope that a three-year conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region, in which at least 200,000 people have died, could be drawing to a close.
But the violence is continuing.
Attacks by the pro-government Janjaweed militia have caused 2m people to flee their homes since the conflict began. Displaced people continue to arrive in camps, like this one at Gereida.
On the brink of new conflict
For days now the United Nations has nervously monitored the planeloads of Sudanese troops arriving in North Darfur.
Now the purpose of the build-up has become clear: the African Union is being asked to leave, and the days of international peacekeeping are to end. Khartoum is to settle the three-year-old rebellion on military terms.
There now seems no way that a United Nations force can be deployed in Darfur, since the idea of peacekeepers fighting their way into this vast, remote region is hardly plausible.
That will leave the huge camps housing two million displaced people extremely exposed.
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