Maxar Technologies<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n Satellite imagery shared by Maxar Technologies and footage posted on social media by North Darfur\u2019s governor show the aftermath of large-scale burning throughout Zamzam\u2019s central marketplace. Among the ash, remnants of the stands, chairs, and tables piled with charred vegetables can be seen. <\/p>\n
Heat signatures recorded by NASA\u2019s Fire Information for Resource Management System show that the fire ignited on Tuesday, causing damage that HRL says is \u201cconsistent with intentional razing\u201d identified after nearby arson attacks perpetrated by the RSF. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe categorically affirm that no violations have occurred, and our forces have never targeted civilians. Rather, our forces operated with military professionalism, swiftly defeating the armed elements, seizing their weapons stockpiles, forcing them to flee the camp, and thwarting their plan to use civilians as human shields.\u201d <\/p>\n
The attack, which unfolded over two days, was launched weeks after the RSF began targeting the camp with long-range artillery in early December, according to a Yale HRL report. <\/p>\n
The RSF claims that the camp is a \u201cmilitary base, housing weapons and ammunition depots as well as operations command rooms,\u201d in the context of the paramilitary group\u2019s wider offensive to capture al-Fasher \u2014 the last remaining bastion for government forces in North Darfur, according to Liam Karr, Africa team lead at the Institute for the Study of War. But these attacks on Zamzam extend \u201cbeyond military objectives into ethnic cleansing and genocide,\u201d Karr says. <\/p>\n
Last month, former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused the RSF of committing genocide in Sudan, and imposed sanctions on its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti. <\/p>\n
The RSF called the Biden Administration\u2019s sanctions \u201cregrettable and unjust\u201d in a statement posted to Telegram, claiming that they were \u201cpolitically motivated and\u2026 without an independent and thorough investigation.\u201d <\/p>\n
Zamzam has long been at the epicenter of the malnutrition crisis in Sudan. Last August, the World Food Program declared that the camp had been pushed into famine. <\/p>\n
One mother, holding her crying two-year-old child, explained the challenge of finding fresh water: \u201cWhen we need water, we need to pay. And we don\u2019t have money, so we ask Allah to sustain us,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n
About 34% of children living in Zamzam camp suffer from acute malnutrition\u2014more than twice the emergency threshold\u2014according to an MSF survey conducted in the fall. <\/p>\n
Since the famine declaration, malnutrition has persisted and spread to two additional camps in North Darfur and the Western Nuba Mountains and is predicted to reach five additional localities in the state before May. <\/p>\n
Faced with continuing security threats, he says, \u201cit\u2019s simply too dangerous\u201d to operate in certain areas of North Darfur. It is immediately unclear how this recent spate of violence will affect the malnutrition crisis in Zamzam. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs the camp is surrounded [by RSF fighters], there is no possibility for the population to flee or for humanitarian aid to enter,\u201d MSF\u2019s Project Coordinator in North Darfur Marion Ramstein predicts. \u201cPeople are left with nothing.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mounira Elsamra, Eyad Kourdi, and Thomas Bordeaux contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThis post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n
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