Villagers in Arara camp in Sudan's remote Darfur region are too scared to return home and are just waiting for a chance to flee to neighbouring Chad.
About 9,000 villagers live in Arara camp in West Darfur state, far from their farming fields and livelihoods.
They say marauding Arab militias, known locally as Janjaweed, have attacked them in the camp and stolen their food provided every few weeks by the World Food Programme.
"If we don't have security here how can we be expected to go to our villages?" said Ahmad Khatir Arbabe. "We would rather go to Chad if security is not improved," he said.
He added the people in the camp near the Chadian border were just waiting for a wadi, or riverbed, to dry up so they could flee and join more than 200,000 Darfur refugees already encamped across the border.
The villagers have built huts and aid agencies have provided sanitation facilities in the camps. They fled their homes last November.
But still in the camp they feel unsafe.
Arbabe said the people cannot go further than 1.5km out of the camp for fear of being attacked by Janjaweed.
Women who go to collect firewood are raped and beaten, he said.
One woman with visible wounds on her hands said she and her sisters had been abducted in August. She escaped when the Janjaweed tried to rape her, she said, but still did not know what had happened to her three sisters.
