Hommam Al Nassim 
The International human rights sources counted the destruction of 72 villages last April as a result of arson against the backdrop of armed conflicts.
The Sudan Witness project, run by the Information Resilience Center, announced that the fires that occurred during this month are the largest since the beginning of the war in April 2023.
The study revealed the deliberate use of fire by the parties to the conflict as a weapon of war, especially in the Darfur regions, and the intensity of fires increased in the north and west of the city of El Fasher, which was under imminent attack.
Sudan Witness project director Anouk Theunsen noted that fires destroyed more than fifty percent of the villages where fighting is taking place in April, noting that “fires are used as a weapon of war indiscriminately, and this trend is exacerbating, causing mass displacement.”
The security situation worsened dramatically on Friday in El Fasher, where violent clashes erupted between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens.
The clashes have also displaced more than 800 people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
A Sudanese army airstrike the following day resulted in the death of two children and a caregiver near a children’s hospital in El Fasher, according to reports from Doctors Without Borders.
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