Sudan: A Mutual Aid Volunteer Reflects On a Year of War in Sudan

Berlin — ‘This coming famine is a political decision by the warring party.’

One year into a devastating war that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly nine million, there is one thing flourishing in Sudan: mutual aid.

Since 15 April 2023 – when the Rapid Support Forces and the regular army began fighting each other – we have seen our dreams of a democratic, prosperous nation destroyed, and we have lived through a year of unrelenting atrocities and loss.

Yet at the same…