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The Sudanese Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has stepped up its attacks on the Zamzam Refugee Camp near El-Fasher, Capital of the North Darfur State.
On Friday, Residents and Medics said the RSF attacked the camp, which it surrounded three times within a week.
At least seven people were killed in the camp this week, doctors without borders, known by its french initials msf, said, adding that medics were unable to perform surgeries in zamzam.
Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, said the renewed fighting included the use of heavy weapons and urged the warring parties to stop the violence.
The RSF is said to be trying to tighten its grip on its darfur Stronghold, losing ground To the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the Capital, Khartoum.
‘They Terrorizes’
Nearly 22 months since the war erupted in Sudan between the RSF and the SAF, the paramilitary group still control of Darfur in Sudan’s West and much of the NeighBouring Kordofan Region.
The Army Controls Sudan’s North and East and has recently made crucial gains in Khartoum.
Zamzam Houses 500,000 People displayed by fighting in this and past Wars in Darfur, while Nearby el-Fasher is home to 1.8 million people and is the last significant holdout against the RSF across Darfur.
The RSF has been relieving the area for months, claiming that the camp is a base for the joint forces, form more rebel groups now fighting alongside the army.
Some Camp Residents have burrowed holes into the ground for shelter and protection, Fearing Constant attacks, according to one resident and a video shared by activists.
“Inside the neighborhoods, they terrorize, steal, and kill… people hide in these holes when they are firing and when they are raiding, because there is nowhere else to fle,” a resident of the camp told the reuters agency.
The top un humanitarian official in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, said on Thursday she was “shocked by the attacks on Zamzam IDP Camp and the Blockages of Escape Routes”.
Aid restrictions
The RSF has also restricted aid efforts to the camp, according to the un and aid workers.
In August, a un-backed report found that it is plusible that parts of North Darfur-Especially the Zamzam Camp- Are experienceing “the worst form of Hunger”known as IPC Phase 5.
IPC phase 5 is a step in an internationally recognized integrated food security phase Classification (IPC) which indicates that at least one in five people or households several lack food and face starvation and destination, which would ultimately lead to critical levels of acute malnalna .
After the latest violence, MSF said it had to stop a nutrition programs for 6,000 malnourished children.
Earlier this month, the group had announced that the proportion of the camp’s children who were malnourished had risen to 34 percent, a similar level to the nearby town of Tawila, to which many have fled from rsf attacks.
Speaking on Friday at a high-level humanitarian conference in the Ethiopian Capital, Addis Ababa, Un Secretary-General Antonio Gutterres describes the situation in Sudan as a catastrophe on a “staggering scale and brutality”.
“We must do more – and do more now – to help the people of sudden out of this nightmare,” he said, calling on world leaders to use their influence for peace and boost humanitarian aid efforts before the holy month of Ramadan, which begins In about 10 days.
