Overwhelmed health workers rushed from patient to patient in makeshift tents in Sudan, trying to help even though they too had barely escaped the fall of El-Fasher to paramilitary forces.

¡°We¡¯re not in good shape,¡± said Ikhlas Abdallah, a general practitioner who arrived from the western Darfur city now in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been battling the Sudanese army since April 2023.

¡°But we have to be okay to provide care to those who need it,¡± she said.