The war in Sudan broke out on April 15, 2023, between the army and paramilitaries, and has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, with some estimates as high as 150,000 dead.
The Zamzam camp for internally displaced people in Darfur was targeted by airstrikes last Sunday night, days after a United Nations-backed agency found famine there, two non-governmental organizations said on Monday.
“Zamzam camp was bombed on Sunday night,” Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) summarized in a statement yesterday.
The Sudanese armed forces, dominant in the airwaves, pounded “with aircraft” this camp, in the vast region of Darfur (west), where 300,000 to 500,000 forcibly displaced people have taken refuge, the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced Persons said for its part. Darfur.
Among those displaced, many were forced to flee El Faser, the capital of North Darfur state and the only major city in the entire region that has not yet fallen to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, as they have been on the rampage of late bloody hostilities there.
Yesterday’s bombings “injured four children and destroyed 20 houses”, reported Coordination, speaking of “panic” in the population.
They came days after a UN-backed report said “famine” had now begun in the camp.
The highest level of alert under the Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC), that of “famine” (“phase 5”), was recorded “in July in Zamzam camp,” the agency, which relies on UN agencies, said in a report.
“The main causes of famine in Zamzam camp are armed conflict and lack of access to humanitarian aid,” the report explained.
The war in Sudan broke out on April 15, 2023, between the army, under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitaries, under the then number two of the military junta, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the leader of the paramilitaries of the dreaded DTY . It has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, with some estimates as high as 150,000, according to the US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Periello.
It has also forced more than 11 million people to become internally displaced persons and refugees, has caused widespread damage to infrastructure and has pushed the whole of Sudan to the brink of famine.
Both warring sides are accused of war crimes for deliberately targeting civilians and obstructing, or looting, humanitarian aid intended for the civilian population.
As the country plunges into “one of the worst humanitarian crises” in modern world history, according to the UN, the vast majority of humanitarian and non-governmental organizations have been shut down.
Source :Skai
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