The first UN mission to El Fasher, western Sudan, talks about civilians in a state "shock"

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The first UN mission to El Fasher, western Sudan, talks about civilians in a state "shock"

United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs at SudanDenise Brown, on Monday, after her return from Al-Fasherfrom the situation there, she said, civilians "Traumatized people" live in "Degrading and unsafe conditions" After two years of war and the Rapid Support Forces’ control of the city located in western Sudan.

A mission from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was able to enter El Fasher on Friday for the first time after two months of control of The Rapid Support Forces are behind them "Hard negotiations"Brown said in a video interview with Agence France-Presse.

Fragile conditions

Brown said "These people live in very fragile conditions. Some of them live in abandoned buildings. Others… in primitive conditions, with plastic covers and no means of hygiene or water. These are humiliating and unsafe conditions for people"

A mission from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was able to enter El Fasher on Friday, two months after the Rapid Support Forces took control of it. "Hard negotiations"According to Brown, who spoke to AFP on Monday via video.

According to Brown, who spoke to AFP on Monday via video: "Large parts of the city were destroyed"

Human suffering

Brown said that El Fasher "It is an epicenter of human suffering in this war"Pointing out that the city, which was inhabited by about a million people, has become… "A ghost of what it once was" and"Crime scene"

Al-Fasher was the last army stronghold in the vast Darfur region. By controlling it, the Rapid Support Forces tightened their grip on about a third of Sudan’s area.

The Rapid Support Forces announced control of El Fasher at the end of October after an 18-month siege and a bloody attack accompanied by reports of massacres, sexual violence, kidnappings, and arrests, which led to the displacement of more than 107,000 people, according to the United Nations.