Report from Civil Authority of the Sudan Liberation Movement – Liberated territories – Tawila
21st of April 2025
The total number of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who fled from Al Fashir city and its IDPs camps of Zamzam, Abu Shouk, Naivasha and Abuj, to the liberated territories controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army chaired by Abdul Wahid Mohammed Ahmed Al Nour, has reached so far to 3,279,000 (Three million, two hundred and seventy nine thousand), as mass waves of the IDPs continue to flood into the areas under the sovereignty of the movement on a daily basis.
These IDPs were allocated to areas across the liberated territories in Tawila, Teibra, Tarne , Rokiro, Golo, Nyertete and Dirbat.
Furthermore; it is crucial to highlight the fact that a large number of children – estimated to be over 500- went missing and were completely separated from their families during the horrific escape from Al Fashir.
However; the civil authority in the liberated areas is making splendid efforts to locate and reunite these children with their families, whereas; hundreds of IDPs perished during their getting away from Al Fashir to the liberated territories, due to dehydration and fatal gunshot wounds in Al Fashir , also numerous cases of miscarriages among pregnant women occurred along the way during the mass escape.
Plus, the massive majority of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) belong to vulnerable segments of societies which include women, children and the elderly.
Accordingly; the civil authority in the liberated territories declared a state of emergency to confront this unprecedented humanitarian disaster and to tackle the catastrophic conditions facing the IDPs, as this mass exodus exceeds the capabilities of the movement and the host communities combined.
Therefore; there is an urgent need for intervention by the United Nations and international organizations, to prevent the situation from escalating into a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scale- one unlike anything the world has ever witnessed.
Finally, the regional and international communities must fulfill their humanitarian and moral responsibilities before the situation spirals out of control and the catastrophe – long warned about since the outbreak of the war in Al Fashir – becomes a grim reality.
