El Fasher , June 5(Darfur2
The city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, in western Sudan, witnessed Tuesday, cautious calm after difficult days that the city went through as battles continued for more than two weeks.
On Monday, 6 people were killed and 10 wounded as a result of artillery shelling by the Rapid Support Forces towards the neighborhoods of Al-Wadi, Tambasi and Al-Radeef, according to medical sources.
The city of El Fasher has witnessed fierce battles since last May 10 between the Sudanese army and the armed movement forces supporting it against the Rapid Support Forces, which led to the death and injury of more than a thousand people, according to Doctors Without Borders.
Exodus
The armed confrontations in El Fasher led to the displacement of residents towards the neighborhoods south and west of the city and the Zamzam camp, and out of the city towards the areas of Tawila, Rorukro, Al-Daein, Al-Lait Jar Al-Nabi, Nyala, Mellit, Darbat, Golo, Dar Al-Salam locality, and Al-Komah.
According to OCHA, from April 1 to May 31, an estimated 130,000 people, equivalent to 26,000 families, were displaced due to clashes in El Fasher.
The clashes in the northern, eastern and southeastern neighborhoods of El Fasher city last May led to the displacement of nearly 90,000 people, or about 18,000 families.
Air drop
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday that the Federal Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the armed forces, delivered about 20 tons of medicines to the city of El Fasher via military aircraft drop on Monday.
Dr. Abu Bakr Abdullah, director of the National Fund for Medical Supplies branch in North Darfur, told “Darfur 24” that the medicines that arrived were “intravenous solutions, surgical sutures, empty syringes, cannulas, anesthetics, and antibiotics.”
He stated that its arrival came at the right time and was distributed to the hospital and health centers.
Water crisis
The city of El Fasher is witnessing a severe water crisis in the camps for the displaced and the neighbourhoods. One of the members of the El Fasher Emergency Room initiative, Sultan Fakhr al-Din Omar Idris, told Darfur 24 that they decided to distribute water to homes by renting a water tanker at the rate of a barrel per house. He pointed out that the city of El Fasher has been suffering from water shortages for a long time. Water crisis in the summer.
He added: “The current war conditions have made the task of obtaining water difficult, and the price of a barrel has reached 6,000 pounds. Some families do not have enough food for their day, and we decided to intervene to ease the burden.”
Fakhr al-Din appealed to national and international organizations to intervene urgently to provide drinking water to the Abshuk and Zamzam camps, where residents suffer from a severe shortage of drinking water, as the family receives only 2 jerrycans per day after spending 12 hours at the water source.
Lack of cash flow
Traders in the livestock market located south of the city partially reopened their shops after closing for more than 3 days due to clashes.
Market trader Musa Muhammad Ibrahim told “Darfur 24” that vegetable and meat merchants and some legume shops began their work with caution, at a time when he revealed the existence of a severe cash liquidity crisis.
Merchants refused to deal through banking applications and demanded cash transactions only. He stated that merchants take a 10% commission in exchange for cash amounts, revealing difficult living conditions in the city after the rise in prices of food commodities.
Communications interruption
A technical engineer at one of the telecommunications companies, who preferred to withhold his name, revealed to “Darfur 24” that warplanes targeted communications cables in the Al-Koma area, 76 km northeast of El-Fasher, in addition to cutting one of the cables in the Shangil Tobay area by an armed group, which led to a complete interruption of the network from all cities in the Darfur region.
He accused the parties to the conflict of violating the rights of citizens, destroying communications infrastructure, and looting fuel from towers in different regions of Darfur.