Sudanese activist Dr Ihsan Fageeri has told the BBC that though she had to flee her home in the capital, Khartoum, she has decided to remain in the country, in Port Sudan, to help her compatriots.
“I need to be with my people who are suffering. Why do I have to go out to save only my life? This would be very selfish of me. I need to save the lives of all the people here,” she told the BBC’s Newsday programme.
Dr Fageeri said that in Port Sudan she was co-ordinating different groups that were offering medical help to those affected by the conflict, which has now lasted for two months.
On 15 April, fighting broke out between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army. Hundreds of people have been killed in the clashes and millions have been forced from their homes.
“All of us are traumatised,” Dr Fageeri said. “We left our houses and the RSF destroyed everything.”
