Rebels from west Sudan said on Tuesday government-armed militias and warplanes had killed at least 24 people in the past four days, forcing civilians to flee to rebel camps and mountain caves in the arid Darfur region. The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of two main rebel groups that launched a revolt in the Darfur area in February, said two Antonov planes had bombed two villages in Western Darfur state on Monday. “Eighteen people were killed and 25 wounded. Two villages were destroyed and the civilians left the dead unburied and fled to the mountains,” JEM general coordinator Abu Bakr Hamid al-Nur told Reuters by telephone. Full Story