A doctor who works there characterizes the humanitarian situation as “catastrophic”.
“People are dying of hunger,” says Dr Nasr Yousif Rajab, the camp’s health rapporteur and a member of the local Emergency Response Room (ERR). “I observed an elderly guy, a woman in her first month of pregnancy, and a breastfed newborn die from starvation in front of me.
However, experts claim that the famine, which was officially proclaimed by the Famine Review Committee (FRC) earlier this week, was “100% preventable” and “entirely man-made”.
Araf, a young woman now residing in Zamzam with her surviving family, reports that missiles crashed on our homes.
The classrooms where we live are overflowing from the autumn rains, and even the donkeys and cows are struggling. We don’t even have buckets to collect water.
The camp is around 12 kilometers south of Al-Fashir, North Darfur’s capital, where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are fighting for territorial control of the region’s breakaway state.
