Loss of a child, saving a child, escaping from air strikes in Darfur

At only 19 years of age, Alwi Babikir Ahmed took out because she was running away from the devastating war that leaked the western region of Sudan in Darfur.

She told the BBC, before she rushed to add that she saw “worse” people during her three -day career from about 70 km (45 miles) from the besieged city of Al -Fashir to the small town of Topilla.

Alwi said that she and her family coincided with a baby crying for his mother, who was dead on the side of the road.

Alwi said that she picked up the child and took him with her: “We covered the mother and continued.”

Sudan was destroyed by a civil war since the outbreak of the fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, causing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world with more than 12 million people who were forced to flee their homes.

Darfur was a main flash point, as RSF controls most of the region – with the exception of the city of Al -Fashr, which remained in the hands of the army and its allies.

Al -Fasher is under intense bombing as RSF tries to seize it. In April, it announced plans to form a government to compete with those created by the army, which raised fears that this would divide Sudan.

Aloa said that with the intensification of the shelling last month, she and her family were forced to flee and walk to Tolla, west of the Kse.

Her brother, Marwan Mohamed Adam, 21, told BBC that he was attacked along the RSF – including “exposed” to beating on my neck, arms, leg “and theft of the few properties he was carrying.

Marwan added that his life spared only because he lied to the gangs about where he came from.

He said that the attackers took out and “executed” young men revealed that they were from the knight, so when he was interrogated, he claimed that he was from Shaqra, and he stopped on the way to Tawila.

“You are afraid, you feel that you are already dead,” the 21 -year -old told the BBC, adding that he saw three bodies on the road.

Another woman, Khadija Ismail Ali, told the BBC that “the bodies were widespread throughout the streets.”

She said that 11 members of her family were killed during the bombing of annulment, and three children died during their four -day trip from the city to Tula.

“Children died of thirst along the way,” Khadija said.

Her family’s village, Trohnia, was attacked last September by the RSF militias, which stole its harvest.

They fled to the Cambading camp, then to the meeting and now to Tuela.

The charitable medical association said that the gunmen took the land and the farms of most families when attacking the villages.

He added that severe malnutrition, especially among children who reach Toyla, have reached a level that warns of danger.

Alwoy said that her sister dropped a little food that they were carrying as they escaped from the air strikes and bombed them, which they faced after the crossing of Al -Shaqira.

She said: “The remaining beans were with a little salt that we carried in our hands to feed the children.”

Without food or water, they were exposed to a woman who told them that she could find water in a nearby village.

The family set out after midnight to the village, but they did not know much that they were walking in an area controlled by RSF fighters.

“We received them, but they did not answer. He told us to sit on the ground and search our property,” he remembered.

The fighters took 20 thousand Sudanese pounds ($ 33; 24 pounds) was all the family, along with the clothes and shoes they were carrying.

“My shoes were not good, but they are still taking it,” Alaway said.

She added that RSF gunmen refused to give them water, so they all pressed until they reached the village of Al -Keim. There, they were well monitored by RSF fighters.

“We asked for at least water for the child who orphan, but they refused,” Alwoy said, adding that she tried to make her way to the well, but the men attacked her and beat her.

Thirst and exhaustion, the family continued to walk until reaching Tolla, where Alawi said it collapsed and rushed to the hospital.

I went out after treating it. Marwan was also treated for the injuries he sustained during the beating.

Alwi said that they searched for the relatives of the infant who saved him, and after finding some of them, they handed the child.

Alwoy and her family now live in Tolla, where a family welcomed her home.

“Life is fine, thank God, but we are concerned about the future,” Alawi told the BBC.

Marwan said that he wants to go outside so that he can continue to teach him and start a new life.

This is something millions of Sudanese did, as their lives were shattered through a war that does not show any sign of completion.