Fatima Salim Omar and her family fled the terrible violence encapsulating Zamzam Camp. Now she try to survive, displaced again, this time in another camp in Tawila. Since April, Tawila, has absorbed nearly 379,000 people fleeing repeated campaigns of mass destruction and year long siege on Zamzam Camp. Most are women (70 per cent), children, and people with disabilities.
EL FASHER JULY 25: Fatima Salim Omar and her family fled the terrible violence encapsulating Zamzam Camp, a camp for the conflict displaced outside of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Now she and others try to survive, displaced again, this time in another camp in Tawila. Watch her incredible story, like so many other women from Darfur, as Sudan’s war continues in its third year.
Since April 2025, Tawila, has absorbed nearly 379,000 people fleeing repeated campaigns of mass destruction and year long siege on Zamzam Camp and Al Fasher, where famine has also been confirmed. Most are women (70 per cent), children, and people with disabilities, arriving into camps, mostly on foot after days of fleeing for their lives.
– “The situation in Tawila is collapsing,” said NRC’s Sudan Country Director Shashwat Saraf. “Families are surviving on scraps, sleeping in the dirt under roofs made out of straw, with barely any access to clean water and toilets. Cases of cholera are rising, and the rainy season is approaching fast, making living conditions more miserable.”
The families in the camps have been fleeing scenes of extreme violence: April’s raid on Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps left up to 400 dead, many raped, aid workers killed, and survivors risking their lives to flee into Tawila in desperation. Since April 2023, 782,000 people have been displaced from Al Fasher and Zamzam, including nearly 500,000 in April – May 2025 alone.
