The human catastrophe of Sudan.
By Ibrahim Ebeid.
February 23, 2025
The tragedy in Sudan continues as a result of the savage wars that devoured many innocent lives, the economy of Sudan was destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced out of their towns into camps inside Sudan or into neighboring countries. In a camp for displaced people south of the city of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state, on Saturday, February 22, 2025, a Fire killed four people, and injured 21 other people with various injuries, the injured were taken to Al-Obeid Hospital for treatment, as a result of suffocation with thick smoke.
Witnesses said the fire broke out in the makeshift camp for displaced people next to the city’s new landport.
Thousands of displaced people in the city of El Obeid are living in unsafe shelters after fleeing conflict zones.
The displaced rely on rudimentary materials to build their homes, which makes them vulnerable to fires, especially in the absence of basic services and the use of rudimentary means of cooking and lighting, in light of the deteriorating humanitarian situation and the lack of relief aid.
Al Hadaf Newspaper of Sudan reported that Sudanese women were peal to the preliminary committee of the World Health Medical Association, the Red Cross, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to urgently intervene to bring the cholera epidemiccontrol,.
The union said in a statement that cholera has returned again in light of the conflict that has been going on for nearly two years, amid deteriorating health and nutritional conditions. This time, the infections appeared in White Nile state.
It indicated in a report that Kosti Hospital received
During the past two days, more than 600 cases of watery diarrhea, mostly cholera, while Rabbak Hospital received 47 confirmed cholera cases, in addition to 110 suspected cases that have not yet been confirmed.
Nine deaths have reached nine and cholera is an additional challenge to the health crisis, with a debilitating health system already struggling to cope with high child malnutrition rates, rising numbers of people injured, and ongoing outbreaks of preventable diseases.
Sawtoroba calls upon human rights organizations to pay more attention to Sudan to help stop the ongoing destruction. The African and Arab states must join hands and stop this ferocious war,. It is the responsibility of Arabs and Africans to act soon to save lives and before spreading the war to other parts of Africa. Save the Sudanese people; they deserve to live; help them to have a democratic secular state so all can live in peace and security.
