“For children already weakened by a lack of nutritious food, cholera or any other causes of severe diarrhea can be fatal,” UNICEF has said, warning that over a million children are at risk.

As the UAE-backed RSF carries out drone strikes on humanitarian infrastructure in war-torn Sudan, the US sells more weapons to the UAE. Meanwhile, Sudan’s de-facto government appeals to China.

Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.

The airstrike on one of the last major markets left with stocks in the North Darfur will likely accelerate the famine spreading in the state since last August.

Sudan has suspended all imports from Kenya after Nairobi hosted RSF representatives who signed a charter for a parallel government.

Attacks on the camp of nearly half a million IDPs are escalating as they await “their inevitable fate, which is a slow death,” suffering from “severe hunger and lack of medicines”.

The move raises questions about Kenya’s foreign policy alignment and its implications for regional politics in the months to come.

Another attack on Sudan’s largest IDP camp, already at the center of the world’s largest displacement crisis, added to the death toll—on top of the 13 children dying of hunger each day for over six months

As the war between Sudan’s security forces continues into its 21st month, casualties mount in North Darfur’s besieged capital El Fasher, which has been cut off from food aid amid spreading famine while local markets are being bombed.

Hanan Adam was a journalist at the Ministry of Culture and Information in the Gezira state and a correspondent for Al-Maidan newspaper of the Sudanese Communist Party

Widespread rapes, sexual slavery and forced marriages under torture have been reported in Sudan’s Gezira state, amid the ongoing depopulation campaign unleashed by the paramilitary RSF last month.

Worsening the world’s largest displacement crisis, attacks by RSF killing hundreds, have affected 120 villages in the Gezira, forcing another 135,000 people to flee.