SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan's cemeteries swell with fresh graves as hunger and disease spread
Reuters’ investigation identified 14 graveyards expanding fast in Darfur showing how people are dying through starvation and disease. Reuters only reviewed satellite images from communities that have not seen fighting in the past six months to rule out the possibility that the dead were killed in fighting.
A cemetery close to Zamzam displaced damp, home to hundreds of thousands, expanded three times faster at the start of 2024 than in the second half of 2023.
No supplies are getting into Niertiti as the Rapid Support militia (RSF) plundered the harvest. Residents are too scared to leave Kalma camp to find work amid the lack of protection from the RSF with men fearing being killed and women fearing being raped.
The situation is about to get worse as Sudan entered the lean season between harvests where food is less available, and rainy season prevents journeys through roads connecting to urban centres.