AFP : A Testimony of a Sudanese Nurse , Elfasher under the RSF

By: Ali Noureldin Abdulrahman

When Sudanese nurse ASmaa returned to Elfasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours lived and no sign of the family she had come to save.

AFP managed to speak to two residents inside the city via satellite internet, collected accounts from two aid groups that gained access, and analysed satellite images to piece together an image of Elfasher under the RSF.

Asmaa fled the city on the day it fell to the RSF, but was detained with eleven others near the city of Nyala and released only after paying a 3000 dollar ransom.

Instead of escaping for good, she went back to Elfasher, and has spent five weeks searching for her brother, brother-in-law and several cousins, amid reports of thousands still detained in the city.

What she has found instead is a city terrifying and full of bodies. Asked by a neighbour to check on his family, she entered their house and found two bodies inside. She recognized them as his cousins, and ran in terror.

Near her home she saw deep burial pits she said were used to erase evidence of killings. The WFP said what little is known about the condition in Elfasher is beyond horrific, citing accounts of burned bodies, abandoned markets and roods littered with mines.

A Red Crescent volunteer, speaking to AFP from the city, said his team entered Elfasher on December 4th and saw burned bodies scattered across streets and buildings, with new corpses reported daily.