As aid situation worsens, displaced Sudanese worry about warnings of famine

The sound of gunfire forced 50-year-old Aisha Adam to flee her home in the al-Kalakla neighbourhood of Khartoum days after war erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, 2023.She went to the neighbouring city of Omdurman, but fighting followed her and in May 2023, Adam had to find a new refuge. It brought her to a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Port Sudan, on the country’s Red Sea coast, where she lives with her orphaned grandson and nephew.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Drone strike in Sudan’s Nyala kills at least 21, injures 40list 2 of 3Strikes on Darfur market in Sudan killed more than 100, rights group sayslist 3 of 3RSF senior commander defects, accusing Sudan group’s leadership of nepotismend of list“Amid the clashes, I left with my grandson for the bus station, intending to travel to Wad Madani in Gezira state, south of Khartoum. But I found a bus heading to Port Sudan and boarded it, even though all I knew about the city was that it was safe,” she told Al Jazeera.The fighting between the SAF and the RSF has killed as many as 200,000 people, according to aid workers. Th...