95 DISPLACED PEOPLE DIE IN SUDAN’S ABU SHOUK CAMP FROM HUNGER, DISEASE

Mon 29 September 2025:

A Sudanese community committee has announced the death of 95 people, including 73 children, in Abu Shouk camp in El Fasher, due to hunger and disease over the past 40 days.

The emergency room of Abu Shouk camp (a popular committee) said in a statement: “More than 73 children under the age of five and 22 elderly people have died in the last 40 days due to hunger and disease among displaced residents of Abu Shouk camp who had fled to shelters and residential areas in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan.”

The statement added that security and humanitarian conditions in El Fasher were worsening, with basic services absent. It explained that there were no sources of clean water or food, especially for displaced people cut off from communal kitchens that used to provide meals, in addition to the complete lack of health services.

It also warned of “a health disaster due to bodies scattered across the city’s neighbourhoods and streets, where the security situation does not even allow proper burials.”

The committee appealed to international and humanitarian organisations working in human rights to provide a safe corridor to protect civilians and allow them to leave conflict areas.

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Since Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the UAE has been accused of being the RSF’s chief backer—arming the paramilitaries with weapons smuggled via Chad and Libya, and funneling cash through Sudan’s lucrative gold trade, which funds the fighters.

Abu Dhabi eyes Sudan’s gold mines, vast farmlands, and Red Sea ports to boost its economy and counter rivals like Saudi Arabia and political Islam.

RSF atrocities in Darfur, labeled genocide by the US in January 2025, have killed thousands and displaced 12 million.

Sudan sued the UAE at the ICJ in March for complicity; ties were cut in May after RSF drone strikes on Port Sudan.

UAE denies it all as ‘baseless,’ claiming no evidence. But UN leaks and US sanctions on UAE-based RSF firms say otherwise.

This proxy meddling deepens famine and chaos—peace demands holding Abu Dhabi accountable.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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