Residents of Sudan risk their lives to find drinking water amidst conflict between the army and the RSF
Youths play football on a makeshift pitch in Wad Madani, the capital of al Jazirah state in war-torn Sudan, on May 30, 2023. / Photo: AFP Archive Fighting in Sudan has left hundreds of thousands of Khartoum residents without running water, with some forced to risk their lives and seek it out during brief lulls in violence.
After nearly six weeks of street battles between forces loyal to rival generals and with temperatures regularly topping 40 degrees Celsius , many inhabitants of the capital's northern suburbs are in desperate need of drinking water. On April 15, when fighting broke out between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces , the station supplying several districts of North Khartoum with running water was damaged. Since then, about 300,000 of its inhabitants have not seen a drop of water run from their taps. Some have reopened wells or used pots to draw water from the Nile River. "At the start of the war, we took water from the wells of the factories in the industrial zone, but after a week, the paramilitaries captured it," resident Adel Mohammed told AFP news agency. As clashes engulfed the area and battles were taking place in residential buildings and hospitals, Mohammed had to wait days before being able to venture out and fetch water. Now, he and his neighbours wait for the clashes to momentarily subside to take an assortment of pots, basins and jugs to the banks of the Nile, which winds through Khartoum's suburbs. Together, they fill a van and return to distribute a few litres each to families remaining in the neighbourhood.
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