Displaced cities are no better than Khartoum

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More than five million people have fled the capital, Khartoum, due to the outbreak of war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, to nearby cities in search of safety. However, they faced difficult humanitarian conditions and suffered hardships during the journey and their stay, as shelters lack services, and rentals for homes are expensive, in addition to the expensive living conditions and rising prices of goods and health services. This is in the absence of the official governmental role and international humanitarian organizations.

Here in Shendi, a small city located in the Nile River region, north of Khartoum (170 km), which received a large number of displaced people and survivors of the Khartoum war, estimated at more than 250,000 displaced people who suffered from the absence of services and the local authorities indifference and shirking of their role in providing available services, supervision, and maintaining security.

Both citizens and displaced people complain that the government in the city directs all its scarce resources towards recruitment and opening training camps, mobilizing public spaces, while the only two hospitals are packed with five times their capacity, according to a medical source, with a shortage of medical staff to face the situation, which can be described as catastrophic. According to an official statistic for the local emergency committee (self-help), about 250 of the displaced have died since last May from patients with kidney failure, cancer, diabetes, and pressure, and war wounded civilians and military, due to neglect, lack of medicine, overcrowding in hospitals, and a shortage of medical staff, despite the strenuous efforts made by volunteer civilian teams.

A reliable source (a government employee in the locality) revealed that the local executive director and committees for security and services, working under difficult economic conditions, focus their efforts on recruitment camps and tax collection to support the war effort and do not care about the citizen.

The price of a gas cylinder has risen from 4,000 pounds to 12,000 pounds, and there is no reason other than further draining the pockets of citizens for the benefit of the war effort, along with the spread of administrative corruption, favoritism, and financial corruption. And manipulation of lands with the presence of investors and factory owners fleeing Khartoum who wish to continue their business.

Many food items that do not comply with standards and measurements are piled up in markets, causing massive chaos in the citys markets, along with environmental and health deterioration that is heading towards a disaster with the spread of some diseases in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities.