Red Cross launches Darfur appeal

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The aid agency said it was providing food, water, shelter and household items to more than 100,000 people at the remote Gereida camp in South Darfur.

The British Red Cross, led by the International Committee for the Red Cross, is also running special programmes to feed children suffering from malnutrition in the camp.

Some two million people have fled their homes as a result of the four-year long crisis in western Sudan and are displaced within the region.

Thousands more have escaped into the neighbouring country of Chad, where they are struggling to survive.

Leigh Daynes, a British Red Cross spokesman who has just returned from South Darfur, said: "The conflict in Darfur has unleashed a cycle of violence that seems unstoppable.

"While the families caught in the crossfire of this conflict wait for a political solution to their plight, the British Red Cross is keeping people alive."

Ros Armitage, conflict manager at the British Red Cross, has also just returned from the camp - which has been described as the world's largest camp for internally displaced people.

She said: "Over 100,000 people are resident in the camp - eight times the number when it first opened in 2004 - and the Red Cross is now meeting their basic survival needs.

"This includes everything from food and water to providing household items like tarpaulins to construct shelter, blankets, soap and cooking pots. We urgently need more money to continue this life-saving work."