By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, (AP)
GOZ BEIDA, Chad - The sultan of Silla looked worried: Arab-African violence spilling over from Darfur is threatening his region of eastern Chad in what is quickly growing into a regional conflict.
"The picture is so bleak," Sultan Said Brahim told John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, during Holmes' visit here this past week.
"I can't even tell you how bad things are getting."
Holmes is wrapping up a weeklong trip to the Darfur region in Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic — his first as the U.N.'s humanitarian chief — by calling for a strong political effort to end the region's growing chaos. He worries that humanitarian efforts might collapse because of increasing violence.
Holmes said he would tell the U.N. Security Council that the three central African countries are facing "a complex crisis, to which we cannot offer a simplistic solution."
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