Agricultures, alleged war crimes and countless civilians who are caught in the crossfire

Africa's greatest war has torn the Sudan apart from violence in which thousands of civilians were slaughtered, which were burned to the ground and were raped hundreds of children, and forced more than 12 million people from their houses.

The catastrophic struggle for supremacy has the Sudanese military, which was controlled, generated, generated as Hemedti, which was controlled by his former deputy, General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.

According to the United Nations, the conflict has created the largest humanitarian crisis in the world that says that at least 24,000 people were killed, although activists say that the number is far higher.

Both sides are exposed to war crimes from the United States that sanctioned the government of the northeastern African nation on Thursday for the use of chemical weapons – an assertion that it denied.

In the meantime, the RSF has denied allegations of ethnic cleaning in the country, in which “about 30.4 million people – more than two thirds of the total population – are needed from health to food and other forms of humanitarian support,” said a report from the United Nations.

After the war had occurred last month, NBC News spoke to three people who were caught in the crossfire.

“You just have to go”

In around seven months pregnant with your first pregnant The child Abdelrahman said that she had resigned to lose her baby when she fled her house in the Jabra district in the south of Sudan's capital Khartoum, who was overwhelmed in September 2023, five months after the fights of RSF armed men.

“You have to go.” At some point I thought: 'It's okay. You lose the baby, but you will be alive with your family. You will be safe with your husband, so God will give it to you, “she added.

But when they hiked south, she said that they had lost contact with her 63-year-old father, who had fallen back. After four days of hectic trace, she said that they had found that he had been arrested at an RSF control point and accused of stealing his own things.

“We were all very afraid,” she said, adding that they feared that he could be shot. “My mother didn't eat for a long time,” she said. At about the same time, she found that her brother, who had decided to stay at home, was seriously injured in a rocket attack, she said.

After 35 days in captivity, Abdelrahman said her father was released. Although he had cholera and malaria, he was relatively intact, she said. Her brother survived the operation even though he almost lost one leg.

With the rest of her family, Abdelrahman moved further south to the state of Jazirah, where she gave birth to her daughter Samiya, who was now 16 months old.

“Everyone was in tears, my mother, me and my father, just a moment full of joy, and I just felt happy, and I felt blessed that God helped me and protected her,” said Abdelrahman, who now taught English in the eastern city of Kassala.

“Samiya is a girl of war because she is strong. And whenever she goes through things in her life, even when she gets bigger, she will surely overcome her,” she added.

“Weapons in my face”

Others like, Amr Ali, 39, did not have the chance to flee.

As an IT worker and freelance photographer, he said that he had spent 10 years in the Netherlands before returning to Sudan in August 2021 to open and settle down.

A little more than two years later, when the fighting approached his house in the east of Khartoum, he said that he had recorded the last messages for his mother and sister with “The Sound of the Shooting and the Bombing” in the background.

On October 5, 2023, when balls exploded in his apartment and rockets nearby, he said, he hid under his bed. When he appeared, he said, eight or nine RSF members had surrounded him and asked if he was a member of the military.

Ali refused to believe that he was a civilian and said that they “hit me like crazy”. He accused him of being with the military and said that they “only showed weapons on my face, shot it next to my ears next to my feet” and threatened to kill him.

He was moved to a nearby petrol station that had been transformed into a provisional prison, and said that he had been met by “so many hands, so many slaps, so many slaps and kicking.

He said that he could smell “weeds and alcohol” on the breath of the fighters who beat him with whistles and sticks, and threatened to shoot him in sham. The blows only stopped at night after other RSF fighters complained about screaming because they tried to sleep, Ali added.

After 10 days, Ali said that he was allowed to contact his family, who showed evidence that he was a civilian. This led to a complete change in the attitude of his kidnappers, who took him to the shower somewhere and gave him new clothes. At a big meal he said that an RSF member had apologized for his abuse.

“I was only confused. We were of beating and” We'll kill you “and” We will destroy you “to” sorry, we will take care of you, “said Ali.

After being released on October 31, he said that he was immediately looking for medical treatment. His hand had to be broken up so that she could heal properly, he added.

Then he fled from Sudan to Egypt, where he is waiting to be relocated by the United Nations and asked if he accepted the Sorry of the RSF.

“We had to find a way out”

Natasha, a British mother of four children, said the “bomb attack became so bad” that they had to leave their home where the army had set up positions on the roof, and said the “bombing was so bad”. NBC News agreed not to use her last name because she fears for her safety.

With her husband back in the UK, she said she had moved in with her mother -in -law Asmaa, 70, And in the course of 18 months of laws and order observed that collapsed and armed gangs roamed through the neighborhood, “stealing from houses and people were killed”.

A 12-year-old friend of her son was “shot by a sniper”, Natasha, 47, recalled in tears and added that the ball “went through him and his sister ran through”.

His death was the catalyst in her decision to leave her home, and added that electricity and water had to be cut out and the food had become scarce.

With kidnapping in Sudan, she said she knew her status as a foreigner with white skin too “very, very dangerous” for her, so she put on sunglasses and wrapped herself from head to toe before escaping in a rickshaw in September.

“I thought:” Ok, I could die on the way out. If I don't know if I don't, I will die. I can't just sit like that. One of us is shot. 'So it was just a deaf feeling, “said Natasha.

She said her driver released RSF control points without stopping before falling near a military control point.

When they approached, Natasha said that soldiers had shot over their heads and she quickly waved a piece of white clothing. The shootout stopped and they were allowed to use the checkpoint.

“I only remember when my husband's mother said to me:” This is it. It's over. You can take off your colors, “said Natasha and started crying.

After the military had regained control of Omdurman, she said that she planned to move into a more beautiful part of the city and open another kindergarten.

War crimes and hunger

The military of the Sudan said on Tuesday that it took full control over the Greater Khartoum region, but the RSF checked most of the western region of Darfur and some other areas in which the fights continue to indicate.

The struggles were shaped by atrocities such as mass rape and ethnically motivated murders, which, according to the UN and International Rights Groups, make up against war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in Darfur. In March, the United Nations children's fund reported that armed men raped hundreds of children, including some of 1 young.

On Thursday, the United States stated that the Sudan government would impose sanctions after determining that they used chemical weapons last year. They will include the limits of American exports and credit lines of the US government and come into force on June 6, said Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, in a statement.

The Sudan rejected the move and described the accusations in an explanation as wrong.

Nevertheless overall overall According to the integrated classification of nutritional security, 24.6 million people or around half of the population are exposed to an acute hunger – an organization that determines a scale that is used by the United Nations and governments to assess hunger.

“I did my best so as not to leave Sudan, but yes, the situation just didn't really help,” said Ali, the photographer. “It doesn't get any better. It's heartbreaking.”