KHARTOUM, Sudan/ISTANBUL

The Sudanese Red Crescent Society said Tuesday that its camp in the city of al-Dabba in the Northern State has received 7,500 displaced civilians from North Kordofan and North Darfur amid attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Speaking to Anadolu, Aida al-Sayed Abdullah, the aid group’s secretary-general, said 150 Red Crescent volunteers prepared the camp to host displaced families from both states and were divided into teams to provide ready meals, psychological and social support, and other services.

International organizations say thousands who fled El-Fasher are now cut off from food and medical supplies, warning of a worsening humanitarian disaster in and around the city.

The Red Crescent also delivered food aid across several localities in both North Kordofan and North Darfur, Abdullah added.

She said 53,781 families in al-Lait Jar al-Nabi, North Darfur, received 1,750 metric tons of food, including ready-to-eat meals and nutritional supplements for children under five, pregnant women and nursing mothers, with support from the World Food Program.

In the Tawila area of North Darfur, about 5,482 families displaced from El-Fasher were received by Red Crescent volunteers, who provide meals through communal kitchens run by volunteers, she said.

Earlier Tuesday, the Sudanese government said it would present a plan to facilitate humanitarian access, support relief efforts and restore security nationwide, and assigned a committee to draft the proposal.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Sunday that more than 38,000 people have fled North Kordofan due to continued clashes between the Sudanese army and the RSF.

The agency also reported that around 71,000 people have been displaced from El-Fasher and surrounding villages in North Darfur since the RSF takeover.

The RSF captured El-Fasher on Oct. 26 and carried out massacres of civilians, according to local and international organizations, triggering warnings that the takeover could cement a geographic partition of the war-torn country.

Since April 15, 2023, the Sudanese army and the RSF have been locked in a war that regional and international mediations have failed to end. The conflict has killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others.