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In total, 19 years, Alavia Babiker Ahmed threw away as she fled on foot into the devastating war that destroyed the western region of Darfur Sudan.
“I bleed on the road,” she said the BBC before hurrying to add that I saw people who were “worse” during a traumatic three-day walk about 70 km (45 miles) from the besieged city of El Fashera to a small town of Tavil.
Eviling from the air strikes and the police after her miscarriage, Alavia said that she and her family came across an infant, cried for her mother, who was dead on the road.
Alavia said she took her baby and took him with him, “We covered his mother and continued to go.”
In April 2023, Sudan was defeated by a civil war because the fighting began between the army and the rapid support forces (RSF), which led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world with more than 12 million people who make them run into their homes.
Darfur was the main point of Flash, and RSF controls most of the region – with the exception of the city of El -Fosher, which remained in the hands of the army and its allies.
El Fasher has come under an intense bombing when RSF tries to grab it. In April, he announced plans to create a government to compete with what was created by the army, causing concerns that it could lead to Sudan’s division.
Alavia said she and her family were forced to flee and go to Tavil, west of El Fasher, as she increased last month.
Her brother Marwan Mohammed Adam, 21, told the BBC that he was attacked by the RSF gang – including “beaten on my neck, hand and leg” and robbed the few things he carries.
Marwan added that his life was deprived of only because he lied to the gang about where he came from.
He said the attackers took away and “shot” the young people who found that they were from El Fasher, so when he was interrogated, he claimed that he was from Shakra, who stopped on his way to Tavyla.
“You feel fear, you feel that you have already died,” said the 21-year-old BBC boy, adding that he saw three bodies on the way.
Another woman, Kalia Ismail Ali, told the BBC that “bodies were scattered through the streets.”
She said 11 members of her family were killed during the shelling of El Fasher, and three children were killed during a four-day journey from the city to Tavil.
“The children died of thirst along the way,” Khadia said.
The village of her family, El-Train, was attacked in September in September last September by RSF police, who stole his crop.
They escaped to the Zamzam’s camp that suffered hunger and then to El Fasher and now in Tavil.
Alimim’s medical charity stated that the militants took land and farms on the village of militants.
Severe malnutrition, especially among children who arrived in Tavil, reached an alarming level, he added.
Alavia said her sister threw the little food they carried by running over the air strikes and the shelling they encountered after passing Shakra.
“It was beans with a small salt we wore in our hands to feed the children,” she said.
Without food and water, they moved and met a woman who told them she could find water in a nearby village.
The family went to the village after midnight, but they knew little that they went to the area controlled by RSF.
“We met them, but they didn’t answer. They told us to sit on the ground and they did search for our belongings,” Alavia reminded.
The fighters took 20,000 Sudanese pounds (33 dollars; £ 24), which was still in the family, as well as the clothes and shoes they transported.
“My boots were not good, but they still accepted them,” Alavia said.
She added that RSF militants refused to give them water, so they all pressed until they reached the village of El Kaim. There they noticed well -protected RSF fighters.
“We asked for water at least for the children, but they refused,” Alavia said, adding that she tried to advance to the well, but the men attacked her and beat her back.
Thirst and exhausted, the family continued to go until it got to Tavila, where Alavia said she had collapsed and was sent to the hospital.
After treatment, it was discharged. Marwan was also treated for the injuries he received during the beating.
Alavia said that they then sought the baby’s relatives they saved, and, finding some of them, handed over the child.
Alavia and her family live in Tavil, where the family welcomed them to their home.
“Life is okay, thank God, but we’re going through the future,” Alavia BBC said.
Marwan said he wanted to go abroad so he could continue his education and start a new life.
This is what millions of Sudan did because their lives were destroyed by a war that does not show the end of the end.