Al-Fashir

Supplies run out by the end of this month." And, and so I know how much we deal with, but, but so often I think that there is an intentional effort, um, by the national media and international press sometimes to ensure we don't know what's happening.

So behind those numbers, last October, rapid support forces took the city, um, called El Fasher in Darfur.

Uh, UN investigators called what they found there the hallmarks of genocide.

And, and any of you who remember, we have been dealing with genocide in Darfur over a decade ago.

And, and we brought the tape on the PDT, and they only aired a fraction of it 'cause they told us that American audiences didn't care.

Hmm.

And I knew that was wrong then, and almost twenty years later, watching El Fasher, I'm watching the same excuse play out again.

Wow.

This is essentially a wartime political strategy, and we, we remain as far as ever from actually getting to an end to this war unfortunately.

Mukesh, let's talk about the humanitarian situation again because there has been warning, uh, from the UN that El Obeid is now at risk of becoming the next humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, becoming the next El Fasher.

How close are we to that becoming a reality?

Well, it's very, it's very worrisome because RSF are camped all around El Obeid, and if the Sudanese army was really on the ascendant, as we are led to believe by the recent advances, then I wish they would do something in terms of consolidating their position sufficiently as to allow both humanitarian access into El Obeid and to allow people an exit if, uh, uh, to safer places if, uh, that was, uh, the personal better option for them.

About two hundred thousand people face catastrophic levels of hunger, according to Scow.

He recently visited El Fasher in the Darfur region, where he said only tens of thousands of people remained in a city that was once home to about one million.

It comes after an 18-month siege by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias on non-Arab communities, which led to famine and atrocities.

Firefighters are making progress on the Lucas Fire in Mendocino and Lake counties in Northern California.

Because Daniel asked for it, and it's the part that most coverage skips.

Sudan right now, as of September 2025, has famine confirmed in al-Fasher and Qadugli.

21.2 million people.

45% of the population in IPC Phase 3 or above.

In desert travel there are three elements, camels, water supply, the guide.

Camels, the best of them, and for no apparent reason, give in, as it happened when I left Kufra and one of my best camels died on the second night, while on the other hand the weakest camel of the caravan, which left Kufra tottering under its load, went through the whole trip, about 950 miles, and arrived tottering at El Fasher.

God will protect it, said its Bedouin owner, when rebuked for bringing such a sorry animal.

And in truth, God did protect it.

If it is a hit, fortune will smile upon the whole undertaking.

The men of the caravan had been reluctant to see me put our luck to the test so soon.

If I had remembered the Bedouin travel lore, I should have saved my first shot at game until we reached El Fasher six months later.

We were three days in Siwa, hiring other camels for the trek to Jagbub and making few final preparations.

We're doing this to solve problems that I think the world needs solved, you know? And I think that, like, what's the alternative? Like, let's say the UN gets a plane shot down.

I mean, you know, a perfect example is Al-Fasher, you know? Al-Fasher is such a shame because I think we could have executed it if we had the right amount of funding, but...

How would you do it? I mean, I don't know.

I worked a few kilometers south of El Faso when it was under siege.

And I staged them there to go drop into alfalfa, like an offset drop because of the surface-to-air missile problem set.

We never got to it because we just, it just never, we never got to the level of comfort that, obviously, I don't want to send an airplane in and get a shot down, so...

I mean, I felt really bad for the people of Al-Fasher.

I mean, I'm sure you know exactly.