Hamza Assadeck Abdoulrahman was at his father’s bedside in a hospital in El-Fasher when the city collapsed on Saturday 25 October. After an eighteen-month siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the command of General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as “Hemetti”, entered the capital of North Darfur, a major crossroads in western Sudan and a centuries-old cultural center, massacring hundreds of residents and filming themselves carrying out the action. Luckily, Hamza’s entire family fled to Chad at the start of the war, but father and son stayed to fight. Wounded by a drone attack in early October, the patriarch is in hospital, bedridden, but his strength is recovering. Hamzah enlisted in 2023, at the age of 17. Even though he had the face of a 12 year old child, the young man now spoke in a dry voice.
on the border between Sudan and Chad, the harrowing story of the survivors of El-Fasher – Libération
