Editor's Note: In March, Kurt Pelda, Africa Bureau Chief of the Swiss daily the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), traveled to eastern Chad on the border with the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur: a trip that was documented in a diary published in English on World Politics Review and that would see him eventually turning back from the border due to inadequate security conditions. In late October, Pelda returned to the region and crossed the border into Darfur, where he accompanied a Darfur rebel group. The diary of his trip was published on the NZZ Online in German, and World Politics Review here presents it in English. Mountain Idyll with Palm Trees in Darfur Yesterday, it was time to say goodbye to Abdallah and his fighters. We all went to the market and had dinner together: not millet or sorghum porridge, but goat meat and vegetables. I was given a particularly large piece of meat.
The Pickup without a Windshield
In Darfur: A Travel Diary (Day 5)
