Sudan: Video on Kassala Youth Emergency Room

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My God, what important work!

Watch this video centering the Kassala emergency response team.

My people are carrying each other, saving one another.https://t.co/4QefDlwu4j#KeepEyesOnSudan

— Munchkin (@BSonblast) December 27, 2023

Here's the video for those who cannot access the microblogging platform X: 

And here is a direct link to the video at YouTube: 

https://youtu.be/GoOIhcRFCIQ?feature=shared

A description of the video at YouTube says, in Arabic and English:

"Kassala Youth Emergency Room 

At a distance of 625 km from the war-torn Khartoum due to the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces, the film “Kassala Youth Emergency Room”, documents an initiative by people working in Kassala.

It shows a team of volunteers working for over 102,777 displaced people in Kassala State, noting that this number doubled after the outbreak of war in Wad Madani city on the eighteenth of December. Kassala state and locality are some of the most important destinations in eastern Sudan for survivors of the war in Khartoum, Darfur, and the Gezira.

The film follows the Emergency Room’s volunteers, showcasing their support for those affected by the April 15 war, from evacuation, welcoming and housing in shelters to providing material and psychological support to children throughout the past eight months.

“War is psychological destruction! For us, this is the priority to evacuate people!”

Waad Mahjoub Altahir, Member of the Communications and Public Relations Office Kassala youth emergency room."

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Sudan: Hundreds of thousands who fled Khartoum warfare & airstrikes are now facing it in Wad Madani

#Sudan: “This is a terrible turn of events. Hundreds of thousands of people who fled from urban warfare and airstrikes in Khartoum are now facing this all again in a place they thought was safe.” @WillCarter_NRC to @guardianhttps://t.co/xFUQfNkBDg

— NRC East Africa and Yemen (@NRC_EAY) December 18, 2023

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Thousands flee Wad Madani, Sudan's second city, to escape fighting

Click here to view the above report at The Guardian online

Written by Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum 

Dated Saturday, 16 December 2023 17.58 GMT - excerpt:

In Djibouti last weekend the two warring sides committed to pursuing a ceasefire under the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s facilitation, an east African political body, but the army on Thursday bombed the city of Neyala, the capital of South Darfur state, killing many people, among them several civilians. Neyala is now being controlled by the RSF after intense fighting that lasted for months. Three other major states have fallen under the RSF, leaving only North Darfur under the army control.

Several aid organisations have suspended their work in Madani, which had become a hub for humanitarian work after war broke out in Khartoum, following the latest developments.

“We have paused our work in Wad Madani while conflict has erupted there, we will resume as soon as possible,” said William Carter, the country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

“The numbers of people displaced are already in their thousands, and likely to grow as the fighting continues. We’ve dispatched emergency response teams to areas that people are fleeing to, such as Sennar and Gedaref states.

“This is a terrible turn of events. Hundreds of thousands of people who fled from urban warfare and airstrikes in Khartoum are now facing this all again in a place they thought was safe.”

A boy displaced by the conflict in Wad Madani walks with his belongings on 16 December. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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