Sudan: Expectant Mothers Travel Terrifying Distances to scape the Turmoil in El-Fasher

Nadra Mohamed Ahmed was seven months pregnant when she fled the escalating violence in her hometown of El-Fasher, Sudan. With Mothers  her two young children, she trekked nearly 40 kilometers along perilous roads before finding transport to a shelter on the other side of the country.

“By the time I made it here, I had lost a lot of blood,” said Ahmed from her tent at the overcrowded displacement camp in Al-Dabbah, northern Sudan. “I was admitted to the ICU for several days and needed a blood transfusion.”

Ahmed reached the camp two months before El-Fasher was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), locked in a brutal conflict with the Sudanese army for more than two years. According to Tasneem Al-Amin of the Sudan Doctors Network, more than 140 pregnant women have arrived at Al-Dabbah since the city’s fall last month, many suffering dangerous complications such as severe hemorrhage that often lead to miscarriage.

Carrying her four-year-old daughter on her back and clutching her six-year-old son’s hand, Ahmed endured parts of the 14-day journey on foot alone, after her husband went missing shortly before their escape.

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