Sudan: Inside the Darfur War

Seige of El-Fasher city causing untold civilian suffering

Sudan: Inside the Darfur War An atrocious war is being fought in Sudan on the backs of civilians: more than thirteen million people have fled their homes, a third of whom have taken refuge in surrounding countries. RSI investigates.
For more than two years, Sudan has been torn apart by the internal power clash between the regular army and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border, Mohammed Dafalla ferries large containers on horseback, riding in the desert heat for hours. “We have nothing left”, he reflects. 250,000 refugees have been surviving like this for more than two years, occupying precarious and temporary shelters on the border, which increasingly threaten to become permanent. “Business was good in Sudan. I owned two stores. We had a decent life and lacked nothing”, reflects Ismael Ali Zakaria, who since arriving in Adré, has trained himself as a tailor, through which he makes a living in the camp repairing clothing. Mass graves of thousands of victims permeate the landscape, the aftermath of sieges from both the Sudanese army and the RSF. Nobody is safe in Sudan’s capital, as Amal Hattoun explains: “When the army enters a neighbourhood, they assume all civilians are RSF supporters. If you survive their bombs, they will kill you.”
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