Children die from hunger in Darfur

Women in the community cuisine in the besieged Sudanese city of Al -Fashir sit in despair.

“Our children are dying in front of our eyes,” says one of them BBC.

“We don’t know what to do. They are innocent. They have nothing to do with the army or (his semi -military rival), the rapid support forces. Our suffering is worse than you can imagine.”

Food is so rare in Al -Fashr to the extent that prices have risen to the extent that it can now buy money that was covered for meals for only one week. International aid organizations condemned the “calculated use of hunger as a war weapon.”

The BBC got rare shots for people who are still trapped in the city, and we sent us a local activist and was photographed by an independent photographer.

The Sudanese army is fighting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than two years after their coup leaderships, then they fell.

Al -Fasher, in the West Darfur region, is one of the most brutal front lines in the conflict.

The hunger crisis is exacerbated due to the increase in cholera that sweeps the launchers of the displaced by the fighting, which escalated this week to One of the most intense RSF attacks on the city so far.

The paramilitary forces tightened the siege for 14 months after the loss of control of the capital, Khartoum earlier this year, and climbed their battle for the sake of the Shoe, the last foothold of the armed forces in Darfur.

In the north and in the center of the country where the army wrestled with its lands from RSF, food and medical assistance began to obtain civil suffering.

But the situation is desperate in the conflict areas in western and southern Sudan.

In MatBAkh-Aal-Khair Communal Kitch in the Checks late last month, the volunteers Ambaz turned into porridge. These are the remains of peanuts after extracting oil, and they are usually fed to animals.

Sometimes it is possible to find thin corn or millet, but on the day of filming, the kitchen manager says: “There is no flour or bread.”

“We have now reached the point of consuming amp

The United Nations has enlarged its attractiveness to stop the humanitarian stop to allow food leaders to enter the city, with its envoy, Sudan, Shieldon Ut, again this week, to notice the warring aspects of its obligations under international law.

The army gave a declaration of trucks to move forward, but the United Nations is still awaiting the official word of the paramilitary group.

RSF advisers said they believe that the truce will be used to facilitate the delivery of food and ammunition to the “besieged militias” of the army inside the Fasher.

They also claimed that the paramilitary group and its allies were creating “safe ways” for civilians to leave the city.

Local respondents in the Vaspage can get some emergency money via a digital banking system, but it does not go too far.

“Prices have exploded in the markets,” says Mathilde Vu, Director of Da`wah at the Norwegian Refugee Council.

“Today, $ 5,000 (3680 pounds) covers one meal for 1500 people in one day. Three months ago, the same amount can feed them for a whole week.”

Doctors say People die from malnutrition. It is impossible to know the number of the report, which is quoted by the regional health official, who puts the number by more than 60 last week.

Hospitals cannot deal. Few still work. They were damaged by the bombing and they are less than medical supplies to help both hunger, and those with continuous bombing.

“We have many children who suffer from malnutrition in the hospital, but unfortunately, there is no one bag of (therapeutic food),” says a pediatrician at the Saudi Hospital, noting that the five children with malnutrition in the suite suffer from medical complications.

He says, “They are only waiting for their deaths.”

When hunger crises reaches, those who usually die first are the most at risk or less healthy or those who suffer from pre -existing conditions.

“The situation is very miserable, it’s very catastrophic,” the doctor says in a voice message.

“The children of El -Fasher die on a daily basis due to the lack of food, and the lack of medicine. Unfortunately, the international community is only monitoring.”

International NGOs working in Sudan issued an urgent statement This week, it was announced that “continuous attacks, obstructing aid and targeting critical infrastructure shows a deliberate strategy to break the civilian population through hunger, fear and exhaustion.”

They said that “anecdotal reports on recent foodstuffs for military use add to the suffering of civilians.”

The organizations said: “There is no safe corridor outside the city, as the roads and those who try to escape from attacks and taxes have been banned from checkpoints, community discrimination and death.”

Hundreds of thousands of people have escaped in recent months, and many of the Zambam camp were the displaced on the edge of El Fasher, which RSF seized in April.

They reach Toyla, a town 60 km (37 miles) west of the city, weak and raised, with Violence and extortion accounts along the way From RSF alliance groups.

Life is safer in crowded camps, but it is chased due to disease – the most deadly deadly: cholera.

This is caused by polluted water and the killing of hundreds in Sudan, which caused the destruction of water infrastructure, lack of food and medical care, and was exacerbated by floods due to the rainy season.

“Unlike the beds, in Tuela for at least workers, workers can reach their limited supplies,” says John Joseph Utthabi, the project coordinator on the site of a group called the Alliance for International Work.

“We have a deficiency in terms of (washing facilities), in terms of medical supplies, to be able to deal with this situation,” he says to the BBC. “We are filling out resources to see the best way we can be able to respond.”

Sylvain Penicaud is estimated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that there are only three liters of water per person per day in the camps, which, he says, is “less than the basic need, and forces people to obtain water from polluted sources.”

Zubaida Ismail Ishaq lying in the tent clinic. She is pregnant in seven months, a cooking and exhausting. Her story is a shock story that many tell.

She tells us that she used to circulate when she had a little money, before she fled from El Fasher.

Her husband was arrested by armed men on the road to Toyla. Her daughter suffers from a head injury.

Zubia and her mother came down to cholera shortly after her arrival in the camp.

“We drink water without boiling,” she says. “We have no one to bring us water. Since his coming here, nothing remains.”

Again in El Fasher we hear calls for help from gathering women in the soup kitchen – any kind of help.

“We are exhausted. We want to lift the siege.” “Even if they broadcast food, anything – we are completely exhausted.”