Citizens are living hungry in Sudan’s North Darfur’s capital, L-Fashar and nearby cities.
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege them for about a year, yet they managed to attack for an attack for joint forces – an array of local armed groups supported by the army.
Experts, local journalists and citizens say that citizens surrounded are now arguing for help, but some people have neither political will nor the ability to save citizens.
According to the United Nations Global Hunger Monitor, Integrated Food Safety Charan Classification (IPC), about 500,000 civilians at the Zamzam camp – the largest refugee camp in North Darfur – are already suffering from famine.
The residents of Zamzam told Al Jazira that the army left some food aid from its warfare aircraft earlier this week, but said the supply would run out in a few days.
“All Sudani military and security agencies should move forward [North Darfur] Zamzam Camp spokesman Mohammad Khamis Doda said, “To ensure the flow of food, medical and human supply to surround citizens.
“There should also be an immediate intervention [humanitarian organisations]”He said.
Leave Darfur?
Most of the camps, and in L-Fashar, belong to sedentary agricultural communities, known as “non-arbs”, while most of the fighters come from nomadic or rustic “Arabs” tribes attacking them, which RSF is usually admitted.
Since April 2023, RSF has been fighting Sudan’s army in a terrible civil war that has triggered the world’s worst human crisis with most measures.
In 2023, the RSF captured four of the five Darfur states of South, East, West and Central Darfur. The northern Darfur was a holdout.
The United Nations has accused both sides of atrocities, but RSF has systematically raped women and girls and “disappeared” thousands of citizens.
Many of these crimes have been committed in Darfur, an RSF stronghold is almost France -shaped.
In April 2024, RSF surrounded L-Fashar, the capital of North Darfur after several local armed groups-was part of the force-the part of the army, despite being formed in the rebellion against the territory of its tribes and region’s territory in the early 2000s.
Since the army captured the capital, Khartum in March, in March, Darfur experts and citizens are concerned that it would prioritize its control over the Central and Northern Sudan, and will again neglect the region.
“At the moment, I am not sure that the army has political willpower and resources that continue to fight [in Darfur]”Jawhara Kanu said, an independent Sudan specialist who is originally from North Darfur.
Kanu said that in the last two years, Darfur has a growing number of personalities with large followers hating social media against citizens, which blames everyone from the region for criminality of RSF.
“They believe that RSF is from Darfur, then let’s let Darfur go,” Kanu told Al Jazira.
“I am afraid of public opinion [in north and central Sudan] Can affect the decisions of army and concerned forces [fight for Darfur],
Indiscriminate war
On 24 March, the army fired four rockets in a crowded market of sunset in Tora village of North Darfur, when hundreds of people were gathering to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
The local monitor estimates that at least 350 people were killed.
Adam Rosal, spokesperson of the displaced people in Darfur, said, “There were many citizens who were killed and injured. Many of them were women and children.” “There was no justification.”
Al Jazeera sent a written investigation to the army spokesperson, Nail Abdullah, asking why the army hit the crowded market during Iftar. He did not respond to the time of publication.
A source monitoring the situation in Darfur, who asked to stay anonymous to protect colleagues from the replica, Al Jazira said that the air strikes of the army are the only preventive against the RSF fighters.
Despite the attack on Tora, most of the citizens in North Darfur fear more RSF invasion of army air strikes.
He believes that the group will commit mass murders and rape and rob the entire cities-as it is done throughout the Sudan-if it wins L-Fasher and nearby villages.
However, the source warned, the army will not be able to accurately strike the RSF if the group infiltrates densely populated places in North Darfur, such as L-Fasher and Zamzam.
“I think strike [on Torra] Indicated that even though the RSF is inside L-Fasher, the army is not going back. And what does this mean for the citizens … Okay, I think we already have an idea, “the formula told Al Jazira.
A deal to surrender?
Local monitor says that RSF has extended abuses in North Darfur in recent weeks.
On 1 April, the group killed at least seven people at the Abu hobby displacement camp, where some 190,000 people live.
Ten days ago, it gave a storm to Al-Malha city north of Al-Fashar, allegedly killed at least 40 people, destroyed houses, and looting the market and increased hunger in the region.
The local monitor told Al Jazeera that Al-Malha’s possession, which is located next to Libya, gives another important supply line to RSF.
On the other hand, they say, joint forces cannot find new weapons or recruit new fighters due to siege.
On Sunday, the leader of the joint forces, Minnie Minavi, called for a “dialogue” during a speech on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, who appeared protesting against an earlier speech by Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Boron, who promised that the army would fight after catching Khartum.
Minavi’s words speculated that joint forces made a deal to avoid bloodshed with RSF, experts and local monitor told Al Jazira.
However, citizens in the region fear that any deal will result in ethnic cleaning of non-arbas, Mohammad Zakaria, a journalist from L-Fasher.
“United Force is the sons of people living in this region. It is really difficult to imagine them to surrender to RSF, because then RSF can kill everyone [non-Arabs] Those who live here, ”they said.
,[Non-Arab communities] See North Darfur as their land; It is impossible for them to leave.
“They will live or die here,” they said.
