The analysis shows how starvation and disease are taking a mounting toll as combatants block food and medical aid.

Sudan’s cemeteries swell with fresh graves as hunger and disease spread.

Between March 28 and May 3, one large cemetery in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur grew 50% faster than in the preceding three-and-a-half months.

Graveyards are fast expanding elsewhere in the Darfur region, which has been ravaged by the war between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has engulfed the country.

“We are trapped here, and we will die of hunger.”

A Kalma community leader on residents being too scared to leave the camp for fear of RSF attacks

At the Hamidiya camp in Central Darfur, the burial grounds are showing accelerated growth in recent months. Satellite images reveal dozens of new burial mounds appearing at one site between March 30 and June 4.

The pace of expansion of the burial ground was 53% higher than in the previous three months, the images show.

Between March 28 and May 3, one large cemetery in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur grew 50% faster than in the preceding three-and-a-half months. About two-thirds of Sudanese don’t have access to healthcare, and between 70% and 80% of the country’s health facilities weren’t functioning as of February, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairsmass screening conducted by Doctors Without Borders in March and April, including more than 46,000 children under five, found that nearly a third of the children were acutely malnourished.

The UAE has had a detrimental impact on the Yemen war and has been still in control of lage part parts of the country, either directly or through the paramilitary STC group.

In the new AP report, the growing threat posed by the UAE is analysed for a better understanding of this lasting war in Sudan.

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Sudan’s cemeteries swell with fresh graves as hunger and disease spread

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