Amidst a war-ravaged district in Sudan’s capital, Abbas Mohammed Babiker and his family are struggling to survive on just one meal a day. Their dire situation has worsened, and now they face uncertainty even regarding that one meal. However, on Sunday July 23, a citizens’ support group made a pressing plea for donations to assist people in dire circumstances like Abbas and his family.
In a war-devastated district of Sudan’s capital, Abbas Mohammed Babiker says he and his family have only been able to eat once a day. Now even that is in doubt, but on Sunday a citizens’ support group issued an urgent appeal for donations to help people like him.
Since April 15, battles between Sudan’s army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have killed more than 3,900 people, according to the latest toll from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).
More than 2.6 million people have been internally displaced, mostly from Khartoum, the International Organization for Migration said.
Thousands who remain in the capital, particularly in Khartoum North, are trapped at home without water since the local water station was damaged at the start of the war.
Residents say there is only intermittent electricity and food has nearly run out.
Across the country, about one-third of the population already faced hunger even before the war began, said the UN’s World Food Programme. Despite the security challenges, the agency says it has reached more than 1.4 million people with emergency food aid as needs intensify.
To help them, the local “resistance committee”, a pro-democracy neighborhood group, issued its emergency appeal.
Khalil Wakim, with AFP
