Al -Jazeera Net Correspondents
7/15/2025–|Last update: 16:07 (Mecca time)
Khartoum- On a daily basis and in the early morning, Amna Suleiman Jawhar starts from the eastern Daulaq region, south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to head south towards a well in a nearby neighborhood, and pays what is known to it locally in the name of “Al -Dardaqa” (a hand transport tool), and transports loads of water, after all the usual water supply lines via networks were damaged by the war.
The region in which Amna lived was since the outbreak of the war in April 2023, one of the areas of deployment and control of the Rapid Support Forces, until the date of last May 20, in which the liberation of the entire capital of Khartoum was announced by the Sudanese Armed Forces, after the region was like the majority of the capital to destroy electricity and water services.
The Rapid Support Forces dismantled the stations and destroyed their equipment, with the intention of forcing the population to evacuate the area, as well as other security problems, which lived in themselves as safe as citizens, whose role and properties were not delivered from the looting and theft, but she tells Al -Jazeera Net that she has been resisting and remained despite the threats.
A safe daily journey to bring water reflects the suffering of multi -side. Contrary to the suffering of water, it adds that “communications are still among the exhausting problems of the population who have been in these areas, and form with a lack of water and electricity restricted to those who want to return.”
And with an apparent mirror in her tone, Amna says to Al -Jazeera Net, “We were subjected to great suffering before the arrival of the army and the expulsion of the Rapid Support Forces.
Post -war challenges
In addition to the absence of water and electricity services, residents of the southern Khartoum regions face other problems related to the repercussions of the war period, the most prominent of which is the transformation of some squares and squares in the middle of the neighborhoods into temporary graves, due to the fact that the rapid support forces were preventing the burial ceremony of the dead from the locals in the official graves such as the tombs of Rumaila, Farouk or the press.
The citizen Mohammed Babiker Quds, who is from the Daula region, refers to the problem of temporary graves, as the Maigoma Association Square turned into a cemetery after it was an arena for sports activity and playing football, which calls for the intervention of the Public Prosecution, the judicial authorities and forensic medicine to transfer the remains of the dead from them to the usual graves.
Quds also talked about an additional problem related to the waste of war that mixed the accumulated garbage, which is dealt with by burning, but he says in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net: “The living conditions, if not good, are better, after the return of some markets and commercial activities, despite the difficulties that are the poor and sometimes lack of communication network, and the effects of this on banking services.”
Quds appears in his speech optimistic with caution, as he refers to a great positive, which is the stability of the security situation and the disappearance of threats, but in return he talks about the stopping of the labor market and the interruption of salaries.
Popular and official efforts
In some areas near the heart of the capital, such as the tree and Ramila, and others farther in the south of Khartoum, specifically in the suburb of Al -Kalakalat, people’s movement seems more intense, with a clear increase in the pace of commercial activities, despite the continued problems of interruptions of communications and its weakness, along with water and electricity crises.
This reality prompted residents of neighborhoods such as Abu Adam, Azouzab, Dabasin, and Wood Ajeeb, to rely on popular efforts and citizens’ donations to provide solar energy systems that help secure water.
Khartoum State witnessed a partial appeal of water supply across networks, despite the great destruction of most of the nutrients. The Director General of the State Water Authority, Eng. Muhammad Ali Al -Ajab, stated that the challenges are not limited to destruction, but also include the absence of electrical supply, especially with the decline of the Nile water level at the present time, which hinders the efforts of temporary treatment of the crisis.
In his interview with Al -Jazeera Net, Al -Ajab explained that the current efforts focus on returning 5 stations to service, including the tree station that recently worked, but faced problems in the carrier lines that were subjected to several sects, and this was forced to stop the work temporarily.
Al -Ajab added that the Beit Al -Mal water station, which feeds the old neighborhoods of Omdurman, entered the service with an operating rate of only 60% of its full capacity, while the Al -Jarif station east – located east of the capital Khartoum – became in its final stages of operation.
In the Bahri area, north of Khartoum, the director of the commission confirmed that pumping was partially resumed, and preparations are being made to operate the auxiliary pump at the tanker station.
Regarding the Jabal Awliya area, he explained that the station, which was operating with 3 lines, was destroyed in two lines, while it was restored in the third line, which would cover the needs of the Jabal Awliya area, as well as parts of the cousins and the central reserves south of Khartoum.