‘A donkey cart out of El Fasher costs more than a new car’: how 500 days under siege is tearing the city apart

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1. This is so horrific and surreal. People spending hours in holes in the ground as drones patrol overhead.

   >Families descend into dark pre-dawn trenches as routine, sometimes sleeping there until the bombardment begins again. Mobile, long-range shelling has become the RSF’s hallmark, more intense every month.

   >The deadliest moments often come in the short sprint between homes and trenches. Ibrahim recalls how two neighbours were killed when they paused to greet each other on their way to their shelters – mere hollows in the ground. Amal describes dragging her grandfather’s body after he was struck by artillery. Pinned down, she sheltered beside his corpse for hours until the shelling eased long enough to leave and bury him.

   >Mohamed speaks of a young man who lay wounded in a flooded trench for two weeks, his leg rotting, before he eventually died. Numerous accounts echo these scenes: frantic descents, long hours underground, tentative returns above; predictably scheduled terror. “The fear never changes,” says Hela, a young woman who fled the city. “If you step outside, something will happen to you.”

2. But odd for the guardian to not mention the significance US responsibilities in this conflict. 

   https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-us-and-the-sudan-conflict-motives-and-ability-to-influence-events/

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