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Civilians in Sudanese city El Fasher 'at risk of mass killings and starvation'

Mass killings and starvation threaten hundreds of thousands of people trapped in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur, as fighting closes in, the charity Doctors Without Borders has warned its latest report.

Radio France Internationale

‘Multiple casualties’ reported after attack on UN aid convoy in Darfur

Trucks carrying food to famine-threatened city targeted in RSF-controlled Al Koma in western Sudan

The Guardian - UK

‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp

On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emerging

The Guardian - UK

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Death, displacement and devastation – two years of war in Sudan

How the north African country has been torn apart by the conflict that broke out in 2023

The Guardian - UK

More than 200 civilians killed as Sudan’s RSF attacks Darfur displacement camps

Relief International medics among dead as paramilitaries step up violence against region’s displaced people

The Guardian - UK

Airstrike Kills About 70 People in Last Functioning Hospital in Sudanese City as Civil War Rages On

An airstrike on the last functional hospital in Sudan's El Fasher killed around 70 people, escalating the country's ongoing civil war.

Latin Times

Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan's Darfur region, WHO chief says

Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan

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Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70, says WHO chief

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it was ‘the only functional hospital in El Fasher’

The Independent UK

Sudan’s brutal war has become many wars, making peace even harder to reach

Sudan’s war runs grimly on. The two main protagonists (though there are others involved) are each claiming local victories. The Sudanese army appears to be slowly regaining control of the ruined capital, Khartoum, and has recovered some ground it lost elsewhere in Sudan. And the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

The Conversation

‘In El Fasher you face only death’: Sudan city empties as paramilitaries close in

Hungry people run risk of shelling, bandits and militias on roads out as Rapid Support Forces try to take city

The Guardian - UK

With more than a million lives at risk in Sudan, the UN must make a decisive intervention. If not now, when?

This is a critical time for global leadership. There must be an urgent plan and a firm resolve, and UK ministers must demand action, says shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell

The Guardian - UK

Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's capital, UN says

Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher

The Independent UK

‘We’ve lost everything’: inside a Sudanese town where children die of hunger every day

People fleeing conflict in North Darfur seek refuge in Tawila – but find food and medical aid scarce

The Guardian - UK

Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

Tom Perriello condemns tactics of Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese military before peace talks in Geneva

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The Conversation

Sudan’s army has been battling to keep Darfur’s El Fasher from paramilitary forces – why the city’s so important

The ongoing conflict in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is complex. It’s rooted in weak state institutions, ethnic diversity and historical grievances.

The Guardian - UK

Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

UN-backed early warning network confirms people in the Darfur city of El Fasher are starving to death

The Guardian - UK

UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia

Exclusive UK accused of trying to head off condemnation of Gulf ally over alleged aid to forces accused of genocide in Darfur

France 24

UN Security Council demands immediate end to siege of Sudan's El Fasher

The UN Security Council has called for an end to the RSF paramilitary's brutal siege of the Darfuri city of El Fasher. We hear rare testimony from one resident who managed to escape but whose family is still stuck in the gunfire and bombings. Also, it has been two years…

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France 24

Situation in Sudan's El Fasher a 'disaster', former MSF chief warns

In tonight's edition: As the World Health Organization warns of the prospect of mass starvation in war-stricken Sudan, we speak to the former director of Médecins Sans Frontières about the devastation being wrought on the Darfuri city of El Fasher. Also, as Ghana moves a step closer to unlocking millions…

The Guardian - UK

Tens of thousands flee camp in Sudan after attacks by RSF paramilitaries

Concerns grow that Darfur is facing another genocide as Rapid Support Forces besiege city of El Fasher

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on protecting Sudan’s civilians: there is no more time to be lost

Editorial: A year after the war began, the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe is deepening

The Guardian - UK

Death, disease and despair as fighting closes in on besieged Sudanese city

Darfur is on the cusp of another massacre as fighting intensifies around El Fasher, the last city in the region not controlled by the Rapid Support Forces

The Guardian - UK

Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan

The Guardian - UK

Essential supplies running out as RSF paramilitary encircles Darfur’s largest city

The population of El Fasher, which includes thousands of displaced people, is in ‘dire need of food, medicine and water’

France 24

Dozen killed in Darfur town as war in Sudan spreads

In tonight's edition: More than two dozen people are reported killed in El Fasher, the last major city in Dafur not controlled by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces. The fighting sends hundreds fleeing for safety. Also, Kenyan doctors push into their fifth week of strikes. A court orders medics and the…

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