September 12, Tabit — Residents of the town of Tabit, North Darfur are struggling to survive. Fatima Ibrahim, who lives in the village of Kadarik, wakes up at sunrise and heads to the farms adjacent to the village to collect the “Tamleka” plant to make food for her children.
“Tamleka” is a vegetable plant that grows in the fall in various areas of Darfur and Kordofan.
Ibrahim boils them as the main meal for her four children. She said sometimes they are hard to find because it is the main source of food for the people in the area.
Since the joint forces were deployed in Zamzam camp in May, the RSF imposed a siege on surrounding areas, preventing the arrival of consumer goods, Ibrahim said. “The living conditions have worsened, the majority of families suffer from malnutrition,” she said. “We have not seen a single humanitarian organization coming to help us.”
Zahraa Abdel Rahman, a women’s activist in the area, told Darfur24 that the famine crisis is rapidly worsening and conditions are potentially fatal. .
Rahman confirmed that the majority of families whose children suffer from malnutrition live in villages of Tabit administrative unit and the neighboring villages in Dar Al Salam locality. She said most residents have resorted to eating grass and vegetables to survive.
Rahman believes that the organizations working in the humanitarian field have become “indifferent” to the condition of the residents.
Hundreds of children suffer from malnutrition in the southwestern countryside of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
A doctor from the Takomari Hospital, supported by Doctors Without Borders in the Zamzam camp, said there are dozens of children suffering from severe malnutrition whose families have not been able to transfer them to therapeutic feeding centers.
He said that malnutrition and watery diarrhea have begun to spread in a frightening manner, especially among children. The siege imposed on El Fasher for more than four months has exacerbated the suffering and increased the death rate among children.
The United Nations Development Programme declared a famine in Zamzam in August, a claim denied by Sudanese authorities