El-Fashir residents eat animal feed to survive

Thousands of residents of El-Fashir, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have resorted to grinding animal feed as a substitute for millet and sorghum to survive.

El-Fashir has become a ghost town amid the ruins of a war that has been ongoing for more than a year, and a devastating famine is looming as basic edible foodstuffs, such as various types of dura (millet and sorghum), run out and clean drinking water is scarce.

“We have nothing to eat, as is the case for most of El-Fashir’s residents,” residents told Asharq Al-Awsat. “We have resorted to buying animal feed, such as ‘Ombaz’, a groundnut byproduct, to grind and cook as porridge.”