All this, while the help of help are still blocked to reach hundreds of thousands trapped near the frontline lines and as the military government and its rival of the rapid support forces (RSF) the battle of the militia for the control of Sudan.
Speaking from Tawila, 50 kilometers (approximately 31 miles) of El Pasher in northern Darfur, the humanitarian coordinator Denise Brown described the immense obstacles to even reaching the area:
“It took us five days, through three countries, three different planes and three days of driving. We had that all because there are many frontline lines inside the Sudan. It becomes very, very difficult to get where we need to go. “
She called Tawila “one of the epicentrios of a humanitarian catastrophe” And he said that he now houses about 600,000 displaced people, mostly fleeing from the fight around the regional capital aimed at the fasher since April.
In Sudan, almost 12 million have been uprooted, which makes it the largest displacement crisis in the world.
Blocked help, besieged civilians
The appeal of Mrs. Brown occurs in the midst of the growing alarm that the fasher, the last important city in Darfur still under government control, could fall to the rapid support forces (RSF) after more than 500 days of siege.
Help groups warn that 260,000 civilians remain trapped without safe exit routes, since, according to reports, the RSF builds berms to block movement and supplies. Mines and key litera roads of unleashed ammunition, further restricting access.
Humanitarian convoys, including food and medicine, have stagnated for months. Humanitarian workers have also been attacked by combatants, with at least 120 killed since the war broke out in April 2023.
“The violence stops the war, let us pass,“Brown said, emphasizing that humanitarian workers are ready to help, but cannot move without security guarantees.
The families who fled from the fight in Zamzam and the Estrafur in Northern Darfur, are looking for refuge in Tawila.
Hunger, disease and rape
Malnutrition, cholera and dengue fever spread rapidly in superpoblated displacement sites.
“Supplies are limited in the market. Access to clean water is limited. Sanitation is incredibly poor,” he warned, adding that families face a “fuel situation” of diseases and hunger.
He also pointed out generalized sexual violence related to the conflict: “This includes rape, group violation, sexual slavery and sexual violence that equals torture. This is an important protection problem, and we have no indications of decelerating.“
Reduced resources
The crisis worsens by severe financing deficit. With only three months in 2025, the Humanitarian Plan of $ 4.2 billion Sudan is only 25 percent funded.
“Each meeting I had been in Sudan has been on a great and acute need and the limited responseBecause we just don’t have the resources to do more, ”said Brown.
Local and international NGOs warn that global inaction is worsening the crisis.
In a joint appeal this week, civil society groups requested urgent humanitarian access and the creation of evacuation corridors for civilians trapped in the Phase, emphasizing that decisive action can still prevent thousands from being more massacred.