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Every day families run along a dry and dusty road towards Chad, fleeing from war and famine in Sudan, scenes that have clearly shaken the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom.
Under the suffocating Sun, David Lammy visited the Post of the Adré border on Friday to witness first hand the impact of the Civil War of Sudan that exploded when the army and its former ally, the paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF), They fell.
Those who reach the border have often been separated from their families in chaos to escape and are desperate to see if their relatives have arrived safely.
“They are some of the most horrible things that I have heard and seen in my life,” Lammy said.
“Overwhelmingly, what I have seen here in Chad, on the border with Sudan, are women and children fleeing for their lives, telling stories of generalized killing, mutilation, ardor, sexual violence against them, their children. And between all , everything, famine, hunger: an incredible difficult situation. “
The Foreign Minister saw the dozens of women wrapped in light multicolored shares and holding children of different ages that crossed in horses thrown away.
They were tired sitting in bags that supported the few belongings they could bring with them on the long journey to security.
“Alhamdulillah” which means “praise is God,” says Halima Abdalla when I asked him how he felt he had reached the border.
The 28 -year -old feels relieved despite the tragedy she has suffered to lose one of her children while she fled Darfur, the western region of Sudan, who has suffered part of the most devastating violence in the last 21 months, much of it. It has been perpetrated by the RSF.
“First I went to El-Geneina, but I had to run again when the fights exploded,” he says, explaining how she separated from her husband and two other children.
