Sudan’s military rulers say they repelled an attack by Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries on the city of El Fasher, the army’s last holdout in Sudan’s Darfur region. Hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting are rapidly running out of food and under constant artillery and drone fire. Those who are able to flee the violence face squalid camps where cholera and other diseases are rampant and many face starvation. This is Enaam Abdallah Mohammed, a 19-year-old who fled violence in Sudan’s Zamzam camp before she was attacked by RSF forces in a village near El Fasher.

Enaam Abdallah Mohammed: “If they find a person with a mobile phone, they would take it from him. If you have money, they take it. If you have a good, strong donkey or something like that, they will take it from you. They kill the people. They killed people in front of us. They took girls in front of us and raped them.”

The World Food Programme warns a protracted famine is taking hold in parts of Sudan, with nearly 25 million people facing acute hunger.