Loss of baby, rescue a child and avoid air strikes in Darfur

At the age of 19, but Babiker Ahmed spontaneous as he was running on the devastating war that devastated the western region of Sudan in Darfur.

“I was bleeding along the way,” she told the BBC before hurrying to add that she saw people who are “worse” during her traumatic three-day walk about 70 km (45 miles) from the siered city of El-Fashire to the small town of Tavila.

Avoiding air strikes and police officers after miscarriage, but Alavia said she and her family came across a baby crying for his mother who lay dead along the road.

Alavia said she raised the child and took it with her: “We covered the mother and continued to walk.”

Sudan has been surrounded by a civil war since the fighting between the army and the rapid support forces (RSF) broke out in April 2023, causing one of the world’s tallest humanitarian crises with more than 12 million people forced to escape from their homes.

Darfur is a major flash, with RSF controls the bigger part of the region -with the exception of the city of El -Fasher, which remained in the hands of the army and its allies.

El-Fasher is under intense bombing as the RSF tries to take it. In April, he announced plans to set up a government to compete with the army created, raising fears that this could lead to the division of Sudan.

Alavia said that as the bombing intensified last month, she and her family were forced to run and go to a tray west of El-Fashire.

Her brother Maruan Mohammed Adam, 21, told the BBC that he had been attacked on the road by the band, combined by RSF – including being “beaten on the neck, arm and legs” and robbed by the few things he wore.

Marvan added that his life was spared only because he lied to the gangs where he came from.

He said the attackers had taken away and “executed” young men who revealed that they were from El-Fasher, so when he was questioned, he claims to be from Shakra, a stop for Tavila.

“You feel afraid, you feel you are already dead,” the 21-year-old told the BBC, adding that he saw three bodies along the way.

Another woman, Hadi Ismail Ali, told the BBC that “the bodies are scattered on the streets.”

She said that 11 family members were killed during El-Fasher’s firing, and three children died during their four-day trip from town to Tavila.

“The children died of thirst along the way,” Hadi said.

The village of her El-Tracunya family was attacked last September by militias related to RSF, who stole their harvest.

They fled to the Zamzam, and then to El-Fasher, and now to Tavila.

Alima’s medical charity said that the artillerymen took the land and farms of most families when they attack villages.

Severe malnutrition, especially among children arriving in the tray, had reached an alarming level, she added.

Alavia said her sister had missed the little food she was carrying as she ran away from the air strikes and firing she was confronted with after passing Shakra.

“There were a bean with some salt we wore in our hands to feed the children,” she said.

Without food or water, they moved and met a woman who told them they could find water in the nearby village.

The family left after midnight for the village, but little knew they were entering an area controlled by RSF fighters.

“We congratulated them, but they did not answer. They told us to sit on the ground and were looking for our belongings,” Alavia recalls.

The fighters took 20,000 Sudanese pounds ($ 33; £ 24), which still had the whole family, along with the clothes and shoes they wore.

“My shoes were not good, but they still took them,” Alavia said.

She added that the RSF artillerymen refused to give them water, so they all pressed until they reached the village of El-Cow. There they noticed a well guarded by RSF fighters.

“We asked for water at least for the orphaned child, but they refused,” Alavia said, adding that she had tried to push her way to the well, but the men attacked her and beat her back.

Thirsty and exhausted, the family continued to walk until she reached Tavila, where Alavia said she had collapsed and had been taken to hospital.

It is written after being treated. Marvan is also treated for the injuries he received during the beating.

Alavia said they were then looking for relatives of the baby they saved, and after finding some of them, the child reported.

Alavia and her family now live in Tavila, where a family welcomes them to his home.

“Life is fine, thank God, but we worry about the future,” Alavia told the BBC.

Marvan said he wanted to go abroad so that he could continue his education and start a new life.

This is something that millions of Sudanese have made because their lives have been broken by a war that does not show signs of the end.