With no cellphone service or phone calls, people in Sudan’s war-torn western region of Darfur are resorting to a bygone means of communication — handwritten letters, carried by taxi drivers
Geneina residents are struggling to survive the latest cycle of violence in West Darfur. Photo: Ayin Network/Twitterith no cellphone service or phone calls, people in Sudan’s war-torn western region of Darfur are resorting to a bygone means of communication — handwritten letters, carried by taxi drivers.
“Even at the start of the fighting, it was hard to get in touch with people in other neighbourhoods inside Nyala,” he said, nearly five months after the war began. Hunched forward in a black patterned shirt and sporting a neat crew cut, Issa carefully folds his letter over and over.“And if they do, there’s no guarantee that they can send one back” through the treacherous roads in and out of Nyala.
Water and electricity networks quickly failed, compounding threats in a city where one in four people already needed humanitarian aid before the war, the UN said. Last week, he reported on Twitter, which has been rebranded as X, that five entire families had been “killed in one day”.
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