People fleeing al-Fashir in Sudan are in a ‘disturbing’ condition, aid group says

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA (Reuters) -Some children fleeing the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are arriving at a humanitarian camp in north Darfur so severely malnourished that treatment may not be able to save them, an international organisation operating there said on Thursday.

“People arrive so dehydrated they cannot talk,” said Mathilde Vu from the Norwegian Refugee Council, describing the harsh journey through desert-like conditions from al-Fashir, Darfur’s largest city, to Tawila.

Some people were surviving off animal feed and rainwater and the over-stretched humanitarian response may be insufficient to save all the children fleeing the siege, where starvation was used as a weapon of war, she said.

“You have children who’ve been so malnourished, so famished during this past few mon