He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost a true hero of the war'

"For months, militiamen on the perimeters of El Fasher have asked those few who managed to escape the besieged Sudanese city whether Mohamed Khamis Douda was still inside. They shared videos threatening to kill him, which, as they hoped, made their way to the activist. Even as the hunger and fear of living under siege and bombardment made him desperate to leave, Douda remained inside El Fasher, constantly working to let the outside world know what was happening to the people there."

"As the official spokesperson for Zamzam, the displacement camp in Sudan's Darfur region, Douda found himself at the centre of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe. Injured during the RSF's massacre there in April in which hundreds of civilians were killed, he had to be carried to the relative safety of nearby El Fasher. Since then, Douda had been in regular contact with the Guardian, describing daily survival in a place that for months has seemed doomed to fall to the RSF."

Mohamed Khamis Douda served as the official spokesperson for the Zamzam displacement camp in Darfur and became a central figure in a major humanitarian catastrophe. Militiamen threatened him and tried to learn whether he remained in El Fasher. Douda stayed in the besieged city despite hunger, bombardment, and fear, documenting conditions and maintaining outside contact. The RSF tightened access by throttling food, water, and medicine and erecting barriers to movement. Douda had been wounded in an earlier RSF massacre and evacuated to El Fasher. On 26 October, RSF forces overran El Fasher and Douda was killed amid mass displacement.

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