At least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, died in a series of attacks that brutally ravaged Zamzam camp in North Darfur between Friday and Saturday.
Thousands of civilians fled the camp, and many others tried to leave but found the roads blocked. The Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps are home to more than 700,000 displaced people from across Darfur who have been living in famine conditions for months. The latest violence against civilians comes a very few days before the second anniversary of the war in Sudan. With no sign of war finishing any time soon, Sudan remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 11.5 million people forcibly displaced and over 600,000 people living in famine.
INTERSOS continues to provide medical and nutritional care, protection, shelter and clean water to people in West and Central Darfur and the states of Kassala and River Nile, but the situation remains dire.
The level of violence remains alarmingly high, with exhausted civilians being killed and displaced at an alarming scale. We urge all parties to the conflict to stop the rampant violence, which is indiscriminately targeting civilians, medical facilities and medical personnel. In accordance with IHL, humanitarian assistance must be scaled up, and humanitarian organisations must not be prevented from delivering vital aid.