The attack on Zamzam refugee camp and what it means for the Sudan war

对赞扎姆难民营的袭击及其对苏丹战争的影响

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2025-05-01

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Guardian journalist Kaamil Ahmed reports on the devastating assault by the Rapid Support Forces on the camp in Darfur and what it tells us about the group’s plans in Sudan’s civil war. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Today, an attack on a refugee camp that might point to the future of Sudan's civil war.

  • On April 11 this year,

  • some of the biggest stories in the world were about Steep falls in the markets after Donald Trump's on-again,

  • off-again tariffs.

  • Prince Harry's secret trip to Ukraine.

  • Prada making a surprise bid to buy Versace.

  • It took a few days for another thing happening that day to reach the world's media.

  • Now let's turn to Sudan.

  • Hundreds of thousands of people are on the move from the largest refugee camp in the country.

  • In Sudan.

  • paramilitary rebels had launched an attack on the biggest internal displacement camp in the country,

  • a place called Zamzam.

  • Sudanese paramilitary forces say they've taken control of the famine-hit Zamzam refugee camp in the Darfur region after two days of heavy shelling and gunfire.

  • The day of the attack, Altahir Hashim's phone was lighting up with messages of distress.

  • Altahir lives in Bristol now.

  • But he knows Zamzam really well.

  • He spent years of his childhood there.

  • Early when we arrived in the camps, there were no toilets,

  • there were no adequate water supply places, there was no market.

  • It did change a lot since I left.