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Displaced people are trying to seek safety after the attack on Zamzam camp
Sudanese people are eating leaves and charcoal to survive after fleeing attacks on camps for displaced people near El Fasher city, aid agencies told the BBC.
“The stories we’ve heard are really scary,” Noah Taylor, operations director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, told the BBC’s Newsday program.
People are running away from Elfasher for Tawila, but are almost dying “on arrival,” Taylor added.
He said some are “dying from thirst,” but travelling from the 40km (25 miles) – Samzam camp at “fearing” temperatures.
“We’ve heard that there are still bodies on the road between Elfasher and Tawila.”
“We spoke to the family who told us about the girl who was walking herself from Elfasher, and were repeatedly raped along the journey, and died of wounds when we arrived at Tawila.”
El Fascher is the last city in the western Darfur region of Sudan, under the control of the Army and its allies. Earlier this month, Paramilitary Quick Support Forces (RSF) attacked nearby Zamzam camps, forcing tens of thousands to flee makeshift shelters.
Many Zamzam residents were there for 20 years after fleeing previous conflicts in Darfur.
The RSF has fought the Army in a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and forced around 13 million people from their homes over the past two years.
Aid agencies say it is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
After being attacked by the RSF, the Zamzam camp was “completely destroyed,” North Darfur Health Minister Ibrahim Carter told Newsday last week.
Taylor also warned that Tawila is struggling to deal with the influx of people fleeing to her home.
“There’s very little food intrusions, there’s very little intrusions with water,” he said, adding that the small town is currently protecting around 130,000 to 150,000 people.
Last week, people fleeing Zamzam told the BBC that their homes had been burned down and they had been shot. The RSF says it attacked the camp, but denies committing atrocities.
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