Aid Agency Warning

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A assistance agency told the BBC that Sudanese people were eating leaves and charcoal to survive after escaping the camps of displaced people near the city of El-Fasher.

“The stories we hear are really scary,” Noah Taylor, operations director for the Norwegian Refugee Commission, told the BBC’s News Day plan.

Mr Taylor added that people were fleeing to El-Fasher in Tawila but “all died when they arrived.”

He said some people “craved to die from desire” while simultaneously making 40 km (25 miles) – a temperature of “bubbles” from “foam” in the Zamzam camp.

“We’ve heard the story, there are still bodies on the road between El-Fasher and Tawila.”

“We talked to a family who told us that a girl walked alone from El-Fasher, raped repeatedly during the journey, and then died from her wound when she arrived at Tawila.”

El-Fasher is the last city in western Darfur in western Sudan, under the control of the army and its allies. Earlier this month, the Paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) attacked nearby Zamzam camp, forcing thousands of people to flee from temporary shelters.

Many Zazam residents stayed there for twenty years after the previous conflict in Darfur.

The RSF has been fighting the military in the past two years in a war that killed tens of thousands and forced about 13 million people to leave their homes.

Aid agencies say this is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

North Darfur Health Minister Ibrahim Khater told Newsday last week that the Zamzam camp was “completely destroyed” after being attacked by the RSF.

Mr Taylor also warned that Tawila was struggling to deal with the influx of people fleeing her homeland.

“There are few ways to eat and very few ways to water,” he said, adding that the town is currently sheltering between 130,000 and 150,000 people.

Last week, people fleeing Zamzam told the BBC that their homes were burned and they were shot. RSF said it attacked the camp but denied any atrocities.