David Lamie “horrified” after he met with the victims of the war face -to -face

Every day, families run on a dry and dusty path in Chad, running away from war and hunger in Sudan – scenes that clearly shook the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary.

Under the suffocating sun, David Lamie visited the border post of an address on Friday to witness the first hand on the impact of Sudan’s civil war, which broke out when his army and his former ally, the Paravilian Forces of Rapid Support (RSF) fell.

Those who do it across the border have often been separated from their families into chaos to escape and desperate to see if their relatives have done it safely.

“This is some of the most horrifying things I’ve heard and seen in my life,” Lamie said.

“Predominantly, what I have seen here, in Chad, on the border with Sudan, the women and children who run for their lives – tell stories of broad slaughter, mutilation, burning, sexual violence against them, their children. And among all that , Hunger, hunger – such an incredible situation.

The Foreign Minister saw dozens of women wrapped in light, multicolored scarves and holding children of different ages passing on horseback strollers.

They seemed tired, sitting on bags, holding several things that they could bring with them to a long journey to safety.

“Alhamdulillah” means “praise to be God,” notes Halima Abdala when I asked her how she felt she had done above the border.

The 28-year-old is relieved despite the tragedy that has lost one of its children while escapes from Darfur, the western region of Sudan, who has suffered some of the most devastating violence in the last 21 months, part of it is alleged by RSF.

“I went to El-Gene first, but I had to run again when battles erupted there,” she says, explaining how she then separated from her husband and two more children.

Address workers say they try to unite families after crossing the border.

“Some mothers told us that they need to choose which children to run with, as they cannot wear them in one time,” an assistant official told the BBC.

Some abandoned children have been brought by humanitarian workers across the border and are put into foster care while efforts are made to find their families.

Standing from the Chadic side of the border, Lami talks to families who were running and the auxiliary workers who receive them.

After meeting some of the refugees, he told the BBC: “All these people have stories – many, very desperate stories of escape from violence, murder in their families, rape, torture, mutilation.”

“I was just sitting with a woman who showed me burning traces. She was burned by soldiers up and down her arms, was and was raped. It is desperate and we must attract the attention of the world and get the suffering to the end .

But he described what he described as the “hierarchy of the conflict”, which at first glance has placed Sudan at the bottom, although it is currently the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

Last November, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary led a resolution calling for the cessation of the UN Security Council, which Russia veto imposed on a veto.

“How could you veto the difficult situation that happens here?” he asked, sounding annoyed.

He told the BBC that he now plans to convene in London, a meeting of Sudan’s neighbors such as Chad and Egypt and other “international peace mediation partners”.

Several attempts at peace negotiations led by the US and Saudi Arabia have failed to give a solution to the conflict.

As mediation stopped, the US subsequently sanctioned generals, leading both sides of the war. He also determined that RSF and its allies performed genocide.

More than 12 million people have fled their homes since battles erupted in April 2023.

Fitted in the middle of bitter battles are more than 50 million civilians, almost half of which are desperately in need of humanitarian aid, according to UN agencies.

The degree of malnutrition is among the highest in the world here. At the Trained clinic in the address, health workers measure the circumference of the top of the six -month Ibrahim.

The color -encoded ribbon goes all the way to the red end. The impact of her healthy status can continue her entire life. One in every seven children here in the address is malnourished.

The United Kingdom will continue to insist on ceasing the fire, Lami said.

He has already doubled the aid of up to £ 200 million ($ 250 million) and calls on other donor countries to activate.

However, help agencies are concerned about the announcement of the newly created US President Donald Trump for a 90-day freezing of foreign assistance.

The interruption of the support of one of the largest donors in the world will undoubtedly have a detrimental consequences for crises like Sudan. The UN is already struggling to achieve its goals for bad money for help.

In 2024, an appeal was appealed for $ 2.7 billion ($ 2.2 billion) to support Sudan, but only 57% of that money was provided.

At the food distribution center in the address of the split of the split yellow peas, millet, sorghum and oil cooking boxes and other supplies are arranged neatly at the top of tarpaulins as families from the nearby queue for a refugee camp for their quotas.

The shouts of babies tied by scarves, for the back of the mothers’ tails, fill the air. One by one, the families are called to collect their rations.

One helps to lift a sack with dry food on the shoulder of another who then buzzes as he returns to his improvised home.

The population of the address was about 40,000 before Sudan’s Civil War began, and now it has grown more than five times, according to local volunteers.

The refugees here are among the lucky ones. Right across the border, in Darfur, the hunger was announced in August at the Zamzim Camp, near the city of El-Fasher, which RSF has been besieging over a year.

On Friday, the devastating news came that one of the last functioning hospitals of El-Fasher had been hit by a drone, killing at least 30 people. Regional authorities said RSF’s Paramilitaries were the culprits, but they did not respond to the claim.

Back in December, the UN Hunger Review Committee said the hunger had spread to more areas-Darfur to the camps of Abu Shuk and Al-Salam and in parts of South Cordofan.

The hunger spread despite the re -opening of the border of the address, which was closed by the army on suspicion that it was used to transport a weapon to its rivals.

When we left the border, three or four trucks with Banners for the UN World Food Program slowly blown up the dusty road, passing to Sudan.

They will provide the necessary assistance to villages, cities and bearings to displace beyond the border. But it is still far from enough.

“We need to activate and wake up now for this huge, huge crisis,” Lami said.