November 28, 2024 (KIRYANDONGO) – Life for Mahassin Mohammed Ibrahim has never been easy ever since he fled his home country Sudan, which has experienced fighting since April 2023. Ibrahim narrates how the situation in El Fasher, North Darfur become unbearable and she fled. She, or instance, narrated how members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), stormed her house as she prepared meal for her family. As the door opened, she says, a hand grenade crashed on the ground leaving her in a pool of blood. “They asked us for money and the keys to our car outside,” Ibrahim, who now lives in Uganda’s Kiryandongo refugee settlement told the European Commission Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). “They didn’t care if we were dying or not,” she added. Ibrahim was rushed to a hospital with a shattered arm and life-threatening shrapnel wounds to her abdomen and legs. Her son, mother and brother, however, escaped with minor injuries. The 39-year old mother explained how she fled El Fasher with her family on a donkey cart. The city currently houses hundreds of thousands of trapped civilians at risk of starvation and violence. “We were lucky to get …

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