The air is thick with the smell of smoke as people in Durban's transit camps boil water, prepare meals and try to stave off the evening chill. For the past two weeks anywhere between 1500 and 2000 foreign nationals - the exact numbers are hard to verify, say officials - have been living in tented camps in Isipingo, Chatsworth and Greenwood Park. They have all been driven from their homes due to xenophobic attacks. At some of the camps, males and females have been separated for logistical and safety reasons.The attacks started three weeks ago in the southern parts of the city, before spreading to the northern areas of KwaMashu and Ntuzuma.On Monday night, the violence spread into the central Umbilo suburb and yesterday all hell broke loose as police clashed with both foreigners and locals in the CBD.Congolese national Aimee Buloze said: "There is war in our country, so we can't go back there. My house was burnt, so what must I go back to? We also can't go back to our homes [in South Africa]. We are trapped here."She and her family had to flee Umbilo after an armed group threatened them. They were not physically attacked after police intervened, but fled to the camp out of fear.While toilets and washing facilities have been set up in some of the bigger camps, many complain that there are not enough to meet demand.The SA Human Rights Commission said yesterday it would continue to probe the conditions in the camps, but said that, "under the circumstances", basic human rights standards were being met...