GOUNGOUR, On the Chad-Sudan border — Barefoot and half-naked, Hamesa Adam carried two sons on her back for six days across the searing Sudanese desert. Two other children, missing their dead father, walked barefoot, and two more rode a donkey.
But 6-year-old Mohammed, one of the children on the donkey, got weaker and weaker.
He cried constantly, clutching at his side. There was not enough food. On the fourth day, Mohammed struggled off the donkey and fell onto the sand.
They buried him nearby, about 2 feet down, placing branches on the grave to keep animals from digging up his body.
Their Villages Plundered, Sudanese Struggle in Desert....
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