SUDAN activists yesterday called on the United States and the international community to intervene in a region of Sudan inaccessible to outsiders, after a US group released satellite photos of what they said appear to be mass graves.

Sudan activists have called for the international community to intervene in Sudan after a US group released satellite photos of what appear to be mass graves.

Pushed to the far edge of desperation, earthquake-ravaged Haitians dumped decaying bodies into mass graves and begged for water and food amid fears that time is running out to avoid chaos and to rescue anyone still alive in the wreckage.