More than 2.5 million people have been displaced by fighting in Sudan. Amnesty International claims chemical weapons are being used in the attacks AFP/Getty ImagesThe Sudanese government has been accused of using chemical weapons to kill civilians including babies and children, leaving hundreds of survivors with “horrific” symptoms. Up to 250 people have been killed since January in alleged attacks on the Jebel Marra region of Darfur, according to an Amnesty International report. Those affected by the “poisonous smoke” suffered symptoms including bloody vomiting and diarrhoea, blisters that changed colour and fell off, blindness and nausea. Amnesty said that the indiscriminate bombardment continued and marked a new low in the regime’s human rights abuses.…

Source: The Times September 29, 2016 07:52 UTC