(MENAFN) The United Nations humanitarian chief on Sunday depicted the plight of displaced civilians in Sudan’s North Darfur state as “unspeakable,” noting that more than half of those fleeing are children.

“Unspeakable suffering in Tawila. Over half of the fleeing survivors are children,” Tom Fletcher wrote in a post on the US social media platform X.

“One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child,” he recounted. “They're asking the world if help is coming.”

According to a UN relief agency post on Facebook, Fletcher visited Tawila and “met and spoke to women who fled El-Fasher only a few weeks ago.”

He emphasized that the displaced Sudanese “carry terrifying stories of brutal violence. The world has not protected them. We must do better.”

The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that Fletcher also traveled to El-Geneina in West Darfur and Zalingei in Central Darfur.

Earlier in the week, Fletcher arrived in Port Sudan in eastern Sudan, where he held talks with the head of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that the total number of people displaced from El-Fasher and nearby villages has exceeded 99,000 since Oct. 26.

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