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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Fatma Khaled

Sudan's war puts charity kitchen workers feeding displaced families at risk

Sudan Charity Kitchens - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Enas Arbab fled Sudan's western region of Darfur after her hometown fell to Sudanese paramilitary forces, taking only her year-old son with her and the memory of her father, who was killed, she said, simply for working at a charity kitchen serving people displaced by the fighting.

The Rapid Support Forces — or RSF, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese army since April 2023 — had laid siege on el-Fasher in the western Darfur region, starving people out before it overran the city.

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