Al Fashir – August 26, 2025: The Emergency Room of Abu Shouk Camp in Al Fashir, North Darfur, announced the death of a family consisting of two grandmothers, a mother, and three children, after consuming “cottonseed cake” last night due to severe hunger and lack of food.
The committee explained that the family did not receive any timely medical assistance, and their situation was only discovered after a neighbor reported it.
This incident comes at a time when Al Fashir and the surrounding displacement camps are facing an escalating humanitarian catastrophe, as the spread of severe hunger coincides with a cholera outbreak that has recorded thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths in recent months.
The city is also repeatedly subjected to artillery shelling by the RSF, which has left large numbers of people injured, amid urgent calls for blood donations to save the wounded at the Southern Hospital.
Activists and humanitarian organizations warn that the situation in North Darfur has reached a critical stage that threatens the lives of thousands of displaced people, amid a severe shortage of food, medicine, and medical services, and in the absence of an adequate international response.
