The route is dirt. With their kids at their sides is everyone of them. Nobody appears to own any possessions.
When food and drink ran out, Buthaina and her six children left el-Fasher, a besieged city in the Sudanese Darfur region, more than 480 kilometers (300 miles) away.
Buthaina tells the news, “We just ran for our lives, we left with nothing.” “My children excelled in school and we led happy lives at home, so we didn’t want to leave.
The Sudanese civil war started in April of last year when the army (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), its erstwhile paramilitary allies, engaged in a bloody power struggle, partly due to plans to transition to civilian administration.
In certain regions of the country, thousands of people have perished from starvation, and the conflict has uprooted millions of people.
Aid organizations also warn that unless much more assistance is provided, Sudan may soon face the worst famine on record.
When the news visited camps in Adré on the country’s western frontier, and Port Sudan, the primary aid hub 1,600 kilometers away on the east coast, we witnessed the suffering of the Sudanese people firsthand.