Camp visit
Ban arrived at a refugee camp at Al-Fasher on Wednesday for a first-hand look at the humanitarian situation.
The secretary-general was handed a petition by a small group claiming to represent people displaced by the conflict.
It called for Ban to support a government-backed policy to encourage displaced Darfuris to return to their villages.
Mohammed Adow, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Sudan, said the visit comes amid fighting between rival Arab tribes and reports of division among anti-government groups in Darfur.
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"The Arab tribes are fighting each other, but the rebel groups are also splintering. They don't share one vision for Darfur," he said.
Adow said that displaced people sheltering at the al-Salam camp near the town of al-Fahser were desperate to return to their homes.
"[The camp at Al-Fasher] is a place where more people are coming to, following the new fighting," he said.
"The people at the camp want to go back to the villages, restart their lives, rear livestock and grow their crops. The new conflict is not encouraging them at all."
After his visit to the camp, Ban is due to return to Khartoum on Thursday, ahead of meetings with Sudan's neighbours Chad and Libya.