Port Sudan rollers a week after the attacks

An enormous increase in the water price is only one of the air attacks on the Red Maritime Marine city.

Once it is seen as a relatively safe haven from the destroyed civil war of Sudan, Port Sudan is now suffering from the bombing days of the RSF group.

Six days after the drone attacks, smoke still rises from three fuel -targeted fuel warehouses. Rescue teams are collected around destroyed sites, but they are struggling to take out fires.

The conflict, which began as a conflict between RSF leaders and the army more than two years ago, created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and forced more than 12 million people from their homes.

One of those who fled to Port Sudan is 26 -year -old Mutasim, who did not want to publish his second name for safety reasons.

BBC spoke to him after waiting for hours until the water seller attends.

The vital commodity has become rare. The explosions in fuel warehouses left Sudan Port Don Diesel used to operate pumps that excite groundwater.

Mutasim BBC told that while one day water supply costs him 2000 Sudanese pounds ($ 3.30; 2.50 pounds) a week ago, fees on this amount are now five times.

He leaves him and his other seven family members without much water for cooking, cleaning and bathing.

He said: “Soon, we will not be able to bear it,” explaining that he gets money from buying and selling basic goods in the market.

Water is not the only challenge in Port Sudan.

Daily life dates back to normal, markets and shops are open, but there are crowds of cars outside the city’s gasoline stations where people wait desperately fuel.

“It may take me five hours to get gasoline,” said Mawassim.

It is a position that many Sudanese have faced before, but not in this city.

Until last week, Port Sudan was one of the few places in the country that was protected from the worst civil war.

“We came here two years ago from omdurman,” Mawassim said, referring to the city that is located on the other side of the Nile River of the capital, Khartoum.

The family costs its entire savings – $ 3000 (2,250 pounds) – to prepare it in a new place.

“We were forced to leave our house by RSF, so it was comfortable coming here. Life began to return to normal.”

“We were thinking about moving because he was no longer safe here, but it is very expensive – and where do we go?”

Port Sudan is suffering from power outages in the past two weeks, which has worsened through the latest attacks.

The seasons said: “My age is more than 70 years, and it is struggling with heat and humidity because there is no electricity for the masses at night.”

“We cannot sleep.”

Hawa Mustafa, a teacher from Jenina in Darfur, in the west of the country, has also resorted to Port Sudan.

She lived with her four children in a shelter for the displaced for more than two years. She said that this week’s attacks were left “living in fear.”

“The drones came and returned to a state of war and the lack of safety,” she told the BBC.

“The sounds of drones and aircraft anti -aircraft missiles remind me of the first days of the war in Jenina.”

Hanna lives without her husband, who was unable to leave his home due to the deterioration of the security situation. She is now responsible for her family.

“I don’t know where to go if things increase in Port Sudan. I was planning to go to one of the neighboring countries, but it seems that this dream will not be achieved anymore.”

Another person who lives in the city told Mary Atta, the BBC that “life has changed completely.”

“We are struggling to overcome it,” she said. “Fear is fixed.”

Since the civil war of Sudan began in 2023, the humanitarian agencies have relied on Port Sudan as a gateway to provide assistance, because of its port and the only international job airport in the country.

It has been used by organizations such as the United Nations World Food Program to provide food assistance.

“Port Sudan is our main humanitarian center,” says Lenne Kinsley, spokesman for the World Food Program for Sudan.

“In March, we had nearly 20 thousand metric tons of food distributed, and I would definitely say more than half that came across Port Sudan,” she told the BBC.

The British program program said that there is currently a famine in 10 regions of the country, with another danger of danger.

Many relief agencies are now concerned that these attacks can prevent the flow of aid, which makes the humanitarian situation worse.

“I think this will strongly restrict the delivery of life -saving food and medical supplies, which will risk more critical deterioration.”

He added that although agencies will search for other ways in the country, they will be difficult.

At night, the city is quiet.

Before the attacks, people were gathering on the coast and some would watch football in local cafes. But the power of electricity is to leave the city in the dark and the residents choose to stay at home for security reasons.