Team Zamzam Monthly Report, October – November 2025
From the coordinating counselor (translated by Gaffar, received November 16, 2025)
Introduction:
In light of the harsh daily conditions experienced by the displaced in North Darfur and the people of IDP camps who were forced to flee from spree of killing, forced displacement, rape, serious attacks, displacement, air and all kinds of inhumane violations, but sadly most of the international humanitarian institutions have remained as silent as the silence of the graves as if nothing had happened. This while local and regional and civil society and humanitarian organisations in the in this area both Tiné are unable to provide the minimum aid and necessity for sustainability of life to those who fled the hell of genocide and ethnic cleansing in El Fasher. At the moment of writing this report, the waves of displacement keep pouring into a town of both Tiné exceeding several hundred families per day.
The humanitarian situation has exceeded the stages of critical
At this moment, it is difficult to describe the humanitarian situation in accurate terms as most areas of North Darfur and its IDP camps in Tawilla locality, and especially the new displaced heading toward Chadian borders, this especially to locality of Tiné, Chad to shelter in the area of Bami-Jura in the southwestern area of the Chadian town of Tine. These newly arrived are suffering from severe food shortages and the inability of local associations to provide adequate food due to the huge number of arrivals on a daily basis.
Among these displaced people, there are increasing numbers of children who have been orphaned by the war, some of whom have lost both parents, while others have lost their mother. These orphans are scattered between the two shelter centres and suffer from severe malnutrition. Moreover, there’s little being provided by the community organisations: their services are simply not enough to cope with the situation on the ground.
Through a routine field visit, we saw large numbers of displaced people fleeing the ravages of the temporary Baimi-Jura shelter, suffering from severe malnutrition—especially among children, the elderly, and the weak. The living conditions of the both shelter centres in Baimi-Jura in Tiné Chad and Tina Sudan are extremely bad, as these people have no food or water. Severe suffering from hunger, cold, chronic disease, and the deaths of malnourished children are the daily reality facing these people.
Through our routine inspections, we come to believe that these two shelters are in desperate need of blankets, warm clothes, as well as tarpaulins and drinking water jars.
The security situation in North Darfur state after the fall of El Fasher
It is quite evident that the minimum security and safety necessary in Darfur has deteriorated rapidly since the fall of the al-Bashir regime in 2019, an event precipitated by civil society action and a popular revolution. Since then the security situation has been deteriorating rapidly because of the RSF militias fighting the Sudanese army and defenceless citizens. These citizens refuse to accept the RSF as an alternative, for they are the very ones who have deliberately created the current insecurity in Darfur.
Since 2002 most of the people of the Darfur’s countryside have been suffering from insecurity to varying degrees; but today, especially since the current war began in 2023, no city, town or village—regardless of its size—has been exempt from extreme insecurity and a constant sense of terror created by the RSF militia. Today, there is no security in any of the cities of Darfur; all are under the control of the RSF. On a daily basis, people must confront the tyranny of the RSF militias, which are always discriminatory, and too often result in kidnapping for ransom—this because people dare to speak their native language.
Those who fled from the hell of war of El Fasher to reach the town of Tina (Darfur) are now continuing their flight into Chad; they are simply too traumatized by the violence and threats of violence they have confronted. Many will be scarred for life. Life today in Darfur—especially for the majority of the population who belong to non-Arab tribes—means living under humiliation, continuous terror—they feel as if they are being besieged in a cage.
The security situation in North Darfur in the areas nominally controlled by the Sudanese army and Joint Forces are completely unstable. Only two weeks ago, a strategic drone belonging to the RSF flew over Tina town (Sudan), targeting the hospital to cause panic; many children and women were among the wounded.
Only four days before the incident of Tina, also the locality of Umm Baru, Karnoi, and other small villages in the area of Dar Zaghawa were targeted by unmanned drones, causing panic and waves of displacement towards Tina/Tiné and other towns on the along the Chad/Sudan’s border. Therefore, we in Team Zamzam appeal to all international human rights organisations and responsible authorities to take the necessary measures to protect unarmed citizens from the racist, finally genocidal RSF militias.
Health condition in both shelters
Health conditions are very bad as there are no health facilities capable of coping with the staggering numbers, and the private health facilities are unaffordable for refugees. The worsening health conditions are pronounced among all the displaced, but especially among children, women, the elderly, and the disabled. There are a number of extremely worrying cases.
The incidence of various diseases is also increasing on a daily basis and the number of patients with malaria, dengue fever, polio, cholera, watery diarrhea, hepatitis C, and other serious diseases.
In addition to this, there are also several hundred wounded people, mostly civilians who suffered from the indiscriminate shelling and attacks on the besieged city of El Fasher and Zamzam during the past months. So far, they have not received treatment at all. They are suffering severely, so we call for an urgent appeal for health organisations to intervene and save these poor people. The number of disabled people inside both shelters had risen to reach 349 individuals, with different ages of children, women, and the elderly.
Sexual and physical violence against women and young girls is increasing
There are a lot of cases opf rapes among displaced people fleeing, far more than have been reported. The killings, beatings, and rapes that took place during and after the fall of Zamzam camp and El Fasher is at once a vast but critical issue. Most of these heinous crimes took place between Al-Qarni, Tawila, and the neighbouring villages North Darfur according to testimonies of several victims who have been helped by Team Zamzam.
More than 200 cases of rape during the past few months have been reported. One of the victims who was helped by the Team Zamzam’s counsellors said”
“On 10th of September we left El Fasher and when I approached Al-Qarni with two of my sons and around 7 am, we fell into the hands of the Janjaweed militias and the Rapid Support Forces. They brutally attacked me and raped me in front of my children.”
Another poor woman who was forced to leave El Fasher was raped by four people for a day and finally one her sons was shot to death. She said:
“They were saying to us: ‘Oh, you the rotten sellers! shut up so that we can choose the colour for you. Free Arab children! [This would be the result of rape in the minds of the RSF—ER]. These were the last words I heard, and then I lost consciousness. Now I am psychologically devastated.”
The work that has been carried out and completed during period September-October
The Team Zamzam as usual continued its program known as (Feak El-reik) a three-day per week morning programme which uusually provides breakfast made up of: milk, Zalabia, cooked rice with milk and morning tea. This programme had helped enormously the weak and the most fragile families with children suffering from severe malnutrition and all categories, including women, girls, children, the elderly, the disabled and people of special needs.
This morning breakfast programme has become famous, one of the most loved and most talked about programs in the two main shelters and two towns across the border. It has been praised by all notables and local authorities of both Tina (Darfur) and Tiné (Chad).
The total number of people who have benefited from this breakfast program during September through mid-October:
3,821 families (11,344 individuals, more than half of them children under 18.
In addition to this, a package of food was distributed to help the poorest families. The package consisted of rice, red lentils, sugar and powdered milk for children.
The number of beneficiaries of this package is 192 households comprising 2,015 people.
Quantity and type of food distributed:
44 sacks of rice @ 25kg = 1,100kg total
19 sacks of red lentils @ 25kg = 475kg
9 sacks of sugar @ 50kg = 450kg
6 sacks of powder milk @ 25kg = 150kg
Number of counseling sessions for period September-October
Group counseling sessions: 39
Individual counseling sessions 64
Beneficiaries and children were very happy with their meals. One of the beneficiaries pointed out these meals were most welcomed and alleviated the serious hunger she and her family had been suffering. Among the community of displaced people, there many disabled, and she said that missing morning tea for long periods of time was very difficult for most of us. But thanks to God and thanks to Team Zamzam, we are having our morning tea three times each week—and our children also are recovering from severe malnutrition!
On behalf of shelters, she gave a voice of thanks and appreciation and respect to this initiative and Team Zamzam’s efforts to provide support to the displaced with such collective initiatives. She stressed that such collective initiatives should continue to reduce the extent of suffering within the shelters for newly displaced people.