Al-Dabba, November 3 (Darfur24)
Hundreds of displaced people fleeing El Fasher in North Darfur State have arrived in the city of Ad-Dabba in the Northern State, following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) takeover of El Fasher, amid deteriorating humanitarian conditions.
According to humanitarian sources, about 62,000 people have been displaced from El Fasher since the RSF seized control of the city on October 26, with many heading toward Korma, Tawila, and other nearby areas, while thousands remain stranded in Qarni.
Several displaced people who arrived in Ad-Dabba said they traveled more than 1,200 kilometers, passing through Qarni, Tarrah, Umm Marahik, and Mellit, before crossing Kordofan’s Kababish areas en route to Ad-Dabba.
Adel Yaqoub, one of the displaced, said dozens of families are still stranded in Mellit and neighboring areas, struggling to find transportation to safer destinations. He noted that most families fled El Fasher three days before the RSF took full control of the city.
Another displaced person, Mohammed Saleh Al-Mustafa, said some of the wounded and sick among the fleeing population have arrived in Ad-Dabba, where they received primary healthcare.
Volunteer Al-Zein Othman in the Northern State said authorities have set up around 100 tents in the Al-Afad area to shelter the displaced and established two medical clinics in the Hawsh Mellit and Al-Afad shelter centers.
He added that the initial number of arrivals in Ad-Dabba exceeded 700 people, most of them women, children, and the elderly, along with several wounded and sick individuals.
Othman confirmed that the Sudanese Red Crescent, humanitarian organizations, and residents originally from El Fasher living in the Northern State have jointly received the displaced, providing aid and basic services.
The RSF took control of the headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division in El Fasher after nearly a year and a half of siege, marking the fall of the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the Darfur region.