Rampaging militants have burnt down entire villages in Sudan’s West Darfur region with aid agencies now warning the region is on the brink of a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
Widespread looting and the destruction of vital infrastructure have left many with little to no access to food, clean water, and medicine.
A ceasefire agreement between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a lull in the violence around the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
But fighting has continued in Darfur, and as the conflict there enters its seventh week, the region appears to have plunged into chaos.
Those unable to flee the war have been digging ditches around their neighbourhoods and setting up barricades to keep out militia fighters who have been destroying everything in their path.
That is the picture painted by a local journalist in the city of Nyala, a regional capital.
Satellite images obtained by the BBC confirm that a village near Nyala in South Darfur, Abu Adam, has been completely wiped out by fire – the blackened outline visible from space.
