December 28, 2024 (ZAMZAM) – Fiddah Jabir, 40, has seen her life turned upside down since the first Darfur war erupted in 2003, when she was first displaced to the Zamzam camp south of El Fasher, only to lose two decades of her life in abject misery. Yet, she never imagined that displacement, fear, and terror would return to haunt her once more. Like millions of other displaced people and refugees, she believed that the cycles of war were over for good when a peace agreement was signed between the Sudanese government and armed factions in October 2020 following the fall of the ousted President Omer al-Bashir’s regime. However, the 2020 peace did not last long. With the outbreak of the April 2023 war and the war in El Fasher in particular, Fiddah found herself once again in the crossfire. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on the Zamzam camp forced her to flee daily with her children and elderly father to the neighboring town of “Shuqra” in search of safety that she could not find in her own camp. In early December, the RSF began attacking the Zamzam camp, which is about 12 kilometres south of El Fasher, with …

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