Sudan army has made a million homeless

Sudanese government forces were accused by a human rights group yesterday of driving more than a million people from their homes in the western Darfur region.

Human Rights Watch said soldiers and Arab nomadic militiamen had killed thousands in a campaign to drive black tribes from Darfur.

It accused the Arab-dominated government of assisting the militia, and called on the UN security council - meeting yesterday to discuss the crisis - to step in to help stop the bloodshed. It likened the situation to the start of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.