U.N. envoy Jan Eliasson visited Darfur on Wednesday, but Sudanese security forces refused to allow journalists or African Union personnel to accompany him. After holding talks with Sudanese rebel groups in Tanzania, Eliasson toured Darfur, told hundreds of internally displaced people that peace could come after the fruitful talks in Tanzania.

Jan Eliasson: “The message is that now there is hope for peace, which is more than a hope. I think it’s expectations that talks shall begin so that we finally can bring this nightmare to an end. I think I feel how deep the pain is here. You meet people who have gone through conflict from different directions and have the horrors of war behind them, memories and images of the worst atrocities you can imagine.”