Hunger and crimes mount as Sudanese civil war enters their third year

Cairo – As Sudan Indicates two years of civil war on Tuesday, Crimes and hunger they just install u what u say u is The worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

Last month Sudanian military military Big win By adoration of the Capital Capital from his rival, paramilitary fast support forces. But it just moved a war into a new phase that could end with the de facto partition of the country.

On Friday and Saturday, RSF fighters and their allies have fallen into two refugee camps in the West Darfur region, Killing at least 300 people. Camps for Zamzam and Abu Shouk, who have removed about 700,000 Sudanes who fled their homes, both of them were hunger, and workers can’t reach them for the fight.

Half population of 50 million faces. The World Food Program confirmed the hunger in 10 locations and says that it could spread, putting millions in the risk of hunger.

“This reasons conflict continued for a long time,” Kashif Shafique, director of the country for relief International Sudan, the last assistance group still works at the Zamzam camp. Nine of his workers were killed at RSF attack.

He said the world must press for the room truce. “We wait every moment, more life hangs in balance,” he said. “Mankind must overcome.”

Here’s what happens as the war enters your third year:

War broke out 15. April 2023With the accurate battles between the army and the RSF on the streets of Khartoum that quickly spread to other parts of the country.

It was the culmination of the months of tension between the head of the army, General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and RSF commanders, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. The two were once aliers in combating Sudan’s movement for democracy and the civilian rule, but turned into the fight for power.

The struggles were brutal. Large parts of the map are destroyed. Almost 13 million people fled her homes, 4 million of them flow in neighboring countries. At least 20,000 people were recorded killed, but the real tolls is probably far higher.

Both sides are accused Atrocityand RSF fighters were infamous due to attacking villages in Darfurperforming the mass killings of civilians and rape women.

A military reservation of Khartoum at the end of March was a great symbolic victory. He allowed Burhan to return to capital for the first time, because the war began and declared a new government, strengthening his standing.

But experts say that RSF has consolidated its retention in areas that continues to control – a huge denture of the Western and South Sudan, including the Darfur and Cordophane Regions. The army has a lot of north, east and center.

“The reality in the field is already reminiscent of the de facto partition,” Federico Donelli said, assistant professor at the University of Trieste in Italy.

Donello said that it was possible for two sides to now seek a truce. But more likely, he said, the military will continue to try to move to the territory held by RSF.

Nor side Looks like she can beat another.

“Both sides suffer from combat fatigue,” Suliman Baldo said, director of Sudanese transparency and policies.

RSF is weakened by internal cracks and “lacking political legitimacy within the country,” Sharath Srinivasan said, a professor of international politics at the University of Cambridge.

But he has strong access to weapons and resources, he strengthened the support of the United Arab Emirates, Chad, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia, he said.

“Without understanding complex regional geopolitics, it is easy to undergo RSF resistance and the ability to hit back,” said Srinivasan, the author “when peace kills politics and warfare in Sudans.”

Hundreds of thousands of trapped hunger and hunger fighting. So far, the epicenter of hunger was in the province of North Darfur and especially Zamanz Camp. The RSF is to surround the camp as it pays offensive to El Fasher, regional capital and the last principal of the army in the Darfur region.

Amna Suliman, the mother of four live in the camp, said people resorted to eat grass and trees.

“We have no choice,” she said in a recent telephone interview. “We live in fear, without communication, no food and there is no hope.”

Since hunger was first declared in Zamzam in AugustShe spread to other parts of the province and nearby provinces Southern Cordophane.

This week, WFP warned that another 17 locations will soon fall into the hunger – including other parts of the Darfur region, but also a place in the central and southern Sudan – because the workers in the south cannot reach them.

“The situation is very difficult,” said Adam Yao, Deputy UN representative and UN agricultural agency in Sudan.

Already, at least 25 million people, more than half of the country’s population, facing acute hunger, including 638,000 facing catastrophic hunger, the most prominent assessments used by the Agencies for Assistance, according to WFP. About 3.6 million children are acutely malnourished.

In other areas, military capture of the territory has enabled the auxiliary groups to reach refugees and displaced people who are largely cut off than the help of two years.

Sudan is hit more Kolera’s outbreaksMalaria and Dengue in the past two years. The latest cholera epidemic About 100 people were killed in March and broke over 2,700 others in the Province of White Nile, the Ministry of Health.

The economy is a decomposition, with the fall of GDP of 40%, in accordance with the United Nations Development Program, UNDP. Full-time employment is halved, and almost 20% of urban households reported that they have no income at all, it was said.

At the same time, the UN agencies and assistance groups faced funds from the main donors, including the United States. Only 6.3% of $ 4.2 billion required for humanitarian aid in Sudan this year has been received since March, Clementine Nkweta-Salami said, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan.

“Reduce come at a time when the needs in Sudan were never bigger, with more than half of the population of hungry and hunger spread,” she said.

About 400,000 people managed to return to their rakes in areas that amounted to the army around Khartum and Near the province of GeziraAccording to the UN migration.

Many found their homes destroyed and looted. They largely depend on local charity organizations for food.

Abdel-Raham Tajel-Sir, the father of three children, returned in February to his neighborhood in Khartoum’s sister’s city of Omdurmanes after 22 months of displacement.

The 46-year-old civil servant said he found his house, which took RSF, severely damaged and robbed.

“It was a dream,” he said about his return, adding that his life in a tully sewered neighborhood with almost no electricity or communications “much better than life as a refuge or displaced person.”

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The associated press writer Lee Keath in Cairo contributed to this report.