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‘They die daily’: in the besieged city Al-Fashir of Sudan is going to hold as a famine
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‘They die daily’: in the besieged city Al-Fashir of Sudan is going to hold as a famine

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In the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir, women prayed, begging for food.
The city has been cut off from the world for more than 15 months by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
No food or assistance is permitted.
Now citizens are worried that the only thing that waits for them is death.
“If you don’t save us, I swear by God, there are no treatment or hospitals available, only death,” said a woman trapped in the besieged city on SBS News.

“We have nothing more for us than death.”

‘They die daily’

Hundreds of thousands of people are besieged in Al-Fashir, the last holdout of the Sudanese army in the West-Darfur region.
People no longer have food and come under constant artillery and drone barages, while those who flee violent attacks and a cholera outbreak in surrounding areas.
The city is the largest remaining front line in the region between the army of Sudan and the RSF, under fire at a crucial point in a civil war now well into its third year.

But the RSF has blocked food supplies and sources that spoke with Reuters, have said that auxiliary voyages are trying to reach the city. Prices for the goods that traders are able to smuggle the national average more than five times.

Now residents are confronted with famine.
Mohamed Dodah, a leader of the community and Zaghawa, fled to the besieged city because it was the last city in Darfur, not under RSF control.
Dodah said people eat one meal a day – if that – and said he was surrounded by hunger and death.
“If you could have breakfast, wait for the next day to eat another meal,” Dodah told SBS News. “They suffer now. They die daily.”

What food citizens can get is bad. Some eat hay. Ambaz – Peanut Oil Waste, which is usually used to feed animals – is reportedly now the primary food source. But there are fears that even rises.

Burgers who prepare meals on the floor.

Ambaz – or peanut -oil waste – is usually used to feed pets in Sudan. But now it is the primary food source of the citizens in the midst of famine. Source: Delivered / Mohamed Dodah

Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary General, said that citizens in Al-Fashir are at a breaking point. “Local sources say that people die from hunger and malnutrition,” Haq told SBS News.

“Kitchens run by the community are closed due to a lack of food supplies, and some residents reportedly resorted to consume animal food.”
The UN says that half of the 50 million population of Sudan is confronted with acute hunger after more than two years of civil war between RSF militants and the Sudanese army.
In Darfur, the UN has declared hunger at 11 locations.

UNICEF estimates that more than 330,000 people are only malnuting in the city of Al-Fashir by a total blockade of AID by RSF militants.

It is becoming an increasingly impossible situation for citizens, who also struggle with shells and increasingly dangerous weather conditions.
“Half a million citizens suffer from the destruction of artillery and drone protections, as well as grenade shards of the fighting on the outskirts of the city,” said Dodah.
A Burger Said that the citizens “suffer extremely fast”, especially in heavy weather conditions. The temperatures touch 35 degrees, while rain and storms bomb the city.

“These houses do not offer shelter or coverage,” she said. “These children do not eat. Even the main meal is not available.”

What happens in Al-Fashir?

Al-Fashir has been cut off by the RSF for more than 15 months from the world.
The civil war between the Sudanese army and the RSF broke out in April 2023 when the former allies collided about plans to integrate their troops.
The RSF achieved rapid win in Central Sudan, including the capital Khartoem, but the army pushed them to the West this year, which led to an intensification in Fighting in Al-Fashir.
The fall of the city would give the RSF control over almost all of Darfur -a huge region that borders Libya, Chad, the Central -African Republic and South Sudan -and release the way for what analysts say that the de facto division of Sudan could be.

Together with the army and its allies, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of Al-Fashir and people who are displaced by earlier attacks, many who live in camps that Monitors say they are already in famine.

As a child, the village of Dodah was destroyed by Arab militias that focused on his tribe, the Zaghawa people, together with the Masalit and fur strains.
These militias later became the RSF.
In April, the RSF fell over the house of Dodah in the Zamzam -Relocation Camp, where he claimed that they set fire to the camp and even killed foreign care providers.

“The entire tool of the Relief International was wiped out, including the camp director and nine other employees. I found their bodies stacked, each with a bullet wound at the head,” he said.

Three men stand against a wall.

Mohamed Dodah (center) fled to Al-Fashir after the fast spotlights invaded his house in the Zamzam displacement camp. A new study estimates that more than 1500 citizens were killed in the attack. Source: Delivered / Mohamed Dodah

Reports on the attack suggested that a maximum of 400 non-Arab citizens were killed during the three-day attack. The UN said that “hundreds” citizens, including 12 humanitarian workers, were killed.

But a new Guardian study estimates that the real number of citizens killed is 1500, with repeated witnesses of mass executions and large-scale abductions.
That number could even be higher with many bodies that are still not being restored from the camp, now controlled by the RSF.
Dodah fled to the last city in Darfur, not under RSF control-al-Fashir. Now he believes that he will be killed – or at least hostage – if the city falls.

“If they drive al-Fashir, there will be dead and rape and kidnap. First they will kill the leaders. They will catch me, [they will] Put me in a prison – if not to kill, “he said.

No escape

Sudanese Australian man Algaly Abdelrasoul lives in Sydney, but his uncle, aunt and extensive family is trapped in Al-Fashir.
He is only able to come to his uncle occasionally and hears a glimpse of the violence.
“So he actually says this [person’s] it does well. This one died. This is injured. This one is gone somewhere. This one we have not spoken, we don’t know where they are, “Abdelrasoul told SBS News.

“This is the norm. I tell me more. What happens? How do you feel? He just tells me, we just survived another day. He sees it as, I just have to survive.”

When asked whether it is possible for his uncle to escape from the starving city, which is surrounded by the RSF, Abdelrasoul said that there is no safe road from Al-Fashir.
“Men – you can’t [escape]. Women and children, [you might] If they show grace, and that is a risk – you could try to escape and they can kill you. They can rap you, “he said.
“If they want to let you go – if you’re lucky – you might escape to a surrounding city.
“It’s a very delicate situation. Because if you stay there, if you are not killed by the RSF, then you are dying of hunger, hunger, lack of medical help is also a big problem.

“They just hold for a dear life.”

‘We see Al-Fashir are being murdered’

Nathan Raymond, a human rights researcher who leads the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, has worked with the UN to better understand the hunger crisis.
He said that although people in Gaza have had assistance for several months, for several months, in Al-Fashir, it was more than a year of total blockade.
“In the case of Al-Fashir, they are now in a state of humanitarian siege since the spring of 2024-dus for more than a year,” Raymond told SBS News.
“The Famine Review Committee of the United Nations stated an IPC Five event, which is the highest degree of famine.”

Although both the army and the RSF have been accused of war crimes in the current conflict, various human rights groups, as well as the United States, say the paramilitary group of genocide in Darfur – say a statement that the militia denies. The RSF also denies committing genocide and says it was not involved in what it describes as a “tribal conflict” in Darfur.

The Raymond team at Yale has claimed war crimes in Darfur with the help of satellites and sensors of ultra -high resolutions provided by NASA and the European Space Agency.
“It is very easy to make reviews because of the teledetation data. We monitor cemeteries on Al-Fashir and in the past year those cemeteries have grown exponentially,” said Raymond.
“We can see them buried their loved ones from the room.”
He said that the satellites have taken on damage to food centers, hospitals, mosques and other critical humanitarian infrastructure.
“We see Al-Fashir being killed from 450 miles above the earth’s surface,” he said.
But the Sudanese forces (SAF) and the citizens in the city may not be able to sustain it much longer.
“At the moment it is a matter of time, unless there is a major change in the military power of SAF
“The majority of the city has been reduced to debris.
“Because of our calculations, more than 40 percent of the city has been destroyed by RSF bombing and attacks and Sudan Armed Forces Air strikes and artillery bombing to try to focus on the rapid prospective forces.
“The citizens are currently trapped in the crossfire. There is no food in the city.”
– With additional reporting by Reuters

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