David Lammy ‘horrified’ after meeting war victims face-to-face

Families flow every day on a dry and dumb road to Chad, and the escape from war and famine in Sudan – scenes clearly rocked the UK Foreign Minister.

Under Sweltering Sun, David visited the position of Adri border on Friday to see the influence of the civil war of Sudan that broke out when the army and its former ally, the Military Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fell.

Those who make them on the border are often separated from their families in chaos to escape while they are desperate to see if their relatives have achieved it safely.

“It is some of the most terrifying things that I heard and saw in my life,” Lami said.

“With an overwhelming majority, what I saw here in Chad, on the border with Sudan, they are women and children flee for their lives – they tell stories about slaughter on a large scale, distortion, burning, sexual violence against them, and their children. Famine, hunger – such an ordeal does not Believe.

Foreign Minister saw dozens of women wrapped in light, multicolored shawls, and a contract for children of all ages who cross horse carts.

They seemed exhausted sitting on bags carrying a few properties that they can bring with them on the long journey to safety.

“Praise”, meaning “praise is to be God”, as Halima Abdullah says when she asked her how she felt that she made her over the border.

The 28 -year -old girl has relief despite the tragedy she suffered from losing one of her children while fleeing from Darfur, the western region of Sudan, which has been committed by RSF.

“I first went to the Geneina, but I had to run again when the fighting broke out there,” she says.

Relief workers say in Adrai that they are trying to reunite families as soon as the border crosses.

“Some mothers told us that they should choose children who could not run with them because they were not able to carry them all in one of them.”

Some of the displaced children were brought by human workers across the border and they are placed in an incubator care while efforts were made to find their families.

When standing on the Chadian side of the border, Lammy spoke with the families who were fleeing and relief workers who were receiving them.

After meeting with some refugees, BBC told the BBC: “All of these people have stories – very desperate stories about fleeing violence, killing in their families, rape, torture, and distortion.”

“I sat with one woman who showed me burning marks. I was burned by the soldiers up and down her arms, and she was beaten and raped. This is desperate, and we must bring the world’s attention to her, bring her and bring her suffering to achieve an end.”

But he criticized what he described as the “hierarchy of the conflict”, which appears to be Sudan’s position on the bottom, although it is currently the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

In November of last year, the UK’s foreign minister led a UN -Security Council’s ceasefire resolution, which achieved the veto against Russia.

“How can you veto the ordeal that takes place here?” He asked, the sounding is angry.

He told the BBC that he now intends to meet, in London, a meeting of Sudan’s neighbors such as Chad, Egypt and other “international peaceful partners”.

Several attempts in the US -led peace talks and Saudi Arabia have failed to achieve a solution to the conflict.

Since mediation stopped, the United States later imposed generals that lead the two sides of the war. He also decided that RSF and its allies committed genocide.

More than 12 million people have escaped their homes since the outbreak of the fighting in April 2023.

It was captured in the middle of the bitter fighting more than 50 million civilians, nearly half of them need humanitarian assistance, according to United Nations agencies.

Malnutrition rates are among the highest rates in the world here. At the beloved clinic in Adrei, health workers measure the surroundings of the upper arm of the six -month -old Rasma Ibrahim.

The colored tape goes along the road to the red end. The effect of her health can last throughout her life. One of seven children here in Adri suffers from malnutrition.

Lami said that the UK will continue to pressure for a ceasefire.

It has already doubled aid to 200 million pounds ($ 250 million), and it calls for the escalation of other donor countries.

However, relief agencies are concerned about the recently opened US President Donald Trump’s US President to freeze on foreign aid.

The turmoil in supporting one of the world’s largest donors will have doubtful consequences for crises such as Sudan. The United Nations is already struggling to achieve its goals for the aids that affect the need.

In 2024, a 2.7 billion dollars (2.2 billion pounds) appeal was made to support Sudan, but only 57 % of these funds were saved.

At Adri’s Food Distribution Center, bags of divided yellow peas, millet, sorghum, cooking oil boxes and other supplies are arranged on top of the joint fabric as families from the nearby refugee waiting menu to obtain their shares.

The cries of infants tied by Shaloat with the appearance of their mothers in a queue that fills the air. One by one, families are called to collect their shares.

The man helps to raise a dry food bag on the shoulder of the other, then he cares about his way to his temporary home.

Adri’s population was about 40,000 before the start of the civil war of Sudan, and now it has grown more than five times, according to local volunteers.

Refugees here are among the few lucky. Directly across the border, in Darfur, the famine was announced in August in the Zamzam camp, near the city of El Fasher, which RSF besieged for more than a year.

On Friday, the devastating news stating that one of the last hospitals in El Fasher had a drone, killing at least 30 people. Regional authorities said that the paramilitary RSF was the perpetrators, but they did not respond to the demand.

In December, the unacceptable famine review committee said to more famine to more areas-in Darfur to Abu Shok and Al Sammam camps and parts of the southern state of Cordovan.

The famine has spread despite the reopening of Adri’s borders that the army closed on suspicion of being used to transport weapons to its competitors.

When we left the borders, signs of the United Nations program for the United Nations Global Program landed slowly on the road to Sudan.

They will provide aid that affects the need for villages, towns and displacement camps outside the border. But it is still far from enough.

“We have to escalate and wake up now on this huge and huge crisis,” Lami said.