From Hell to the Dark: The journey from El Fasher to Tawilah, leaving a burning home, facing an uncertain future, and struggling with severe constraints.

El Fasher, once a rare sanctuary for civilians fleeing the long war in Darfur, has collapsed into one of the deadliest epicenters of Sudan’s conflict. Since early 2024, and with devastating escalation from May 2025 onward, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) encircled the city, cutting off humanitarian access and turning displacement camps like Abu Shouk, Zamzam, and Al Salam into targets of shelling, drone strikes, and raids. Food, water, and medicine were deliberately denied, making starvation a weapon of war. Civilians who remained faced indiscriminate bombardment, executions, ethnic persecution, and rampant sexual violence. This brutality forced a mass exodus toward Tawilah. More than 200,000 families—many arriving with nothing—now struggle with hunger, extreme temperatures, and lack of medical care and shelter. Along the road, RSF fighters abducted girls, killed women and extorted captives for ransom. Survivors recount humiliation, torture, and killings filmed and shared to instill terror.