October 18, 2024 (KHARTOUM BAHRI) – Residents of areas in northern Khartoum Bahri that remain outside of army control are facing a dire situation, with reports of renewed violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), acute food shortages, and a deadly outbreak of disease, local sources told Sudan Tribune on Friday. These sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said RSF fighters have returned to the Halfaya suburb, where they are conducting house-to-house searches, arbitrarily detaining, beating, and humiliating civilians accused of collaborating with the army. This comes after the army declared it had seized control of Halfaya and the surrounding areas of Kadru and Al-Azirqab in a late September offensive. However, the RSF subsequently released videos showing their continued presence in the southern part of Halfaya, which borders the Shambat neighbourhood. The RSF has imposed a blockade on southern Halfaya and the Al-Samrab neighbourhood, cutting off access to essential supplies and leading to widespread hunger. Adding to the suffering, a lack of medical care has allowed an unidentified fever to spread rapidly, claiming lives, including an entire family – a father, mother, and two children – in Al-Samrab. “People are dying here from fever. There …

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