The General Coordination of Displaced Persons stated that the cholera outbreak continues its alarming daily spread into new areas and camps across Darfur. It reported that the humanitarian and living conditions in the city of El Fasher have reached a state of absolute deprivation and death, due to the complete disappearance of basic goods from the markets and the skyrocketing prices of what little remains—such as the price of a sack of flour exceeding 11 million Sudanese pounds (equivalent to about 3,700 US dollars on the parallel market).
Children’s meals have completely disappeared, with even the last remaining food source—livestock feed known locally as ambaz—no longer available for them. According to the Abu Shouk IDP Camp Emergency Room, men and women are still relying on ambaz as their primary source of food.
The emergency room explained that the crisis has gone far beyond all warning levels and into the tragedy of death by starvation, with more than 60 people having already died from hunger and malnutrition. Weekly mortality rates are steadily rising, with more than four deaths per week in the camp, particularly among vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women, and the elderly.
The besieged city of El Fasher, surrounded by the RSF for more than a year and a half, is suffering from severe shortages of food supplies. A few days ago, community kitchens completely ceased operations, plunging the city into a state of full-scale famine, with residents beginning to die of hunger.
The Sudanese Doctors Network warned that unless urgent action is taken—either by opening a humanitarian corridor or conducting an airdrop—residents of El Fasher will soon enter a stage of slow death.
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