After 500 Days of Siege, Children in Al Fasher Face Starvation, Disease, and Death A Call to the World to Save Sudan’s Trapped Children
After 500 Days of Siege, Children in Al Fasher Face Starvation, Disease, and Death
A Call to the World to Save Sudan’s Trapped Children
By Alkrty – Human Rights Activist
PORT SUDAN/NEW YORK, 27 August 2025 – For more than 500 days, the city of Al Fasher in North Darfur has been under siege, transforming into the epicenter of one of the world’s most devastating humanitarian crises. Children are starving, families are displaced, and entire communities are cut off from the outside world.
An estimated 260,000 civilians – including 130,000 children – remain trapped in Al Fasher, with no access to humanitarian aid for over 16 months. Meanwhile, at least 600,000 people have already fled the city and surrounding camps, seeking safety but finding only hunger and disease.
“Children are starving while lifesaving aid is deliberately blocked. This is a grave violation of international law, and humanity cannot remain silent,”
— Alkrty, Human Rights Activist
Starvation and Disease as Weapons of War
The blockade enforced by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has turned food, water, and medicine into weapons of war. Health facilities have collapsed, therapeutic food supplies have run out, and more than 6,000 children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) are left untreated and at risk of death.
Since the siege began in April 2024, over 1,000 children have been killed or maimed in Al Fasher. At least 23 have suffered rape or sexual abuse, while others were abducted, recruited, or forced into armed groups. The true scale of abuse is likely far higher, hidden by restricted access and ongoing violence.
Hospitals and schools have not been spared: 35 hospitals and 6 schools have been struck, including the Al Fasher Saudi Maternal Teaching Hospital, bombed more than ten times. In January, the Abu Shouk Camp Health Centre, critical for treating malnourished children, was completely destroyed.
Hunger Meets Epidemic
The siege is colliding with Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in decades. Nationally, more than 96,000 suspected cholera cases and 2,400 deaths have been reported since mid-2024. In Darfur alone, nearly 5,000 cases and 98 deaths have struck already weakened families.
Crowded displacement camps in Tawila, Zamzam, and Al Fasher are breeding grounds for the disease. With children already weakened by starvation, cholera has become a death sentence.
A Plea to the World
The suffering in Al Fasher is not an accident of war—it is the result of deliberate denial of aid and indiscriminate attacks on civilians. The international community must act immediately to stop this unfolding genocide against Sudan’s children.
I call for:
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An immediate and sustained humanitarian pause in Al Fasher and across Sudan.
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Unhindered humanitarian access for delivery of food, medicine, and clean water.
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International protection for civilians and infrastructure, in line with humanitarian law.
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Urgent global funding for cholera response and nutrition programs to prevent further loss of life.
Final Word
Children in Al Fasher have endured 500 days of starvation, bombardment, and disease. Their cries must not be drowned in silence. Every day that aid is blocked, more young lives are lost.
The world must rise to defend Sudan’s children before it is too late.
— Alkrty, Human Rights Activist
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