The Latest Breaking News from El Fasher

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)…

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

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