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Sudan: 'Noose of War' Tightens On Civilians in El Fasher, UN Official Warns
UN News, 30 May 2024
The top UN aid official in Sudan warned on Thursday that "the noose of war is tightening its stranglehold" on civilians in El Fasher, expressing her profound distress at the dire… Read more »
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Sudan: Nowhere Safe From Violent Fighting in El Fasher As Hospitals Are Repeatedly Hit
MSF, 28 May 2024
The intense, non-stop fighting in El Fasher, Sudan, leaves no safe place for civilians in the city as patients and medical staff are increasingly becoming part of the staggering… Read more »
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Sudan: How El Fasher Went From Darfur's Safe Haven to All-Out War
The New Humanitarian, 29 May 2024
'I have never seen anything worse.' Read more »
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Chad: Funding Is Needed to Support Sudanese Refugees in Chad - UNHCR
UN News, 29 May 2024
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is calling on partners to assist them in supporting about 185,000 Sudanese who have journeyed into Chad and are trying to escape dangerous borders,… Read more »
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Sudan: Deteriorating Situation in El Fasher, Health System Collapsing Nationwide
UN News, 24 May 2024
The humanitarian situation for some 800,000 civilians in El Fasher, Sudan, and surrounding areas in North Darfur continues to deteriorate amid ongoing clashes between rival… Read more »
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Sudan: Escalating Conflict and Dire Human Rights Situation of 'Grave Concern' - Presidency
SAnews.gov.za, 28 May 2024
South Africa has expressed its "grave concern" over escalating armed conflict in Sudan, which has reportedly claimed thousands of lives, destroyed infrastructure and displaced… Read more »
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Sudan: UN and African Union Must Act Swiftly to Prevent Mass Atrocities in El Fasher
AI London, 23 May 2024
Responding to reports of escalating violence in El Fasher, in Sudan's North Darfur region, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah,… Read more »
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Sudan: North Darfur Civilians Flee 'Catastrophic Escalation' in Conflict
Dabanga, 26 May 2024
A new wave of mass casualties and displacement of civilians is occurring in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, amid intensified conflict. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF)… Read more »
Sudan in Crisis As Hospitals Targeted, Healthcare Collapses
Intense fighting in El Fasher, Sudan has caused heavy casualties among civilians and damaged medical facilities, reports Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The MSF-supported South Hospital has been repeatedly hit twice over the past few days. In addition, all three major medical facilities in the city have suffered damage due to the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital of North Darfur. The violence has forced the closure of the city's only pediatric hospital and damaged another maternity hospital, leaving many in need without access to critical healthcare.
UN reports that the conflict has sparked a humanitarian crisis, with some 18 million people across the country going hungry and five million on the brink of famine.
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Despite the conflict ending, millions remain displaced in Sudan with limited access to food, water, and healthcare. Humanitarian aid organizations haven't returned in full force, ... Read more »
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Aid workers' capacity to deliver essential services has been severely impacted by "indiscriminate attacks" and disruption of telecommunications in the country, a group of 94 ... Read more »
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The U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield has warned that more than 2 million people in Sudan's western Darfur region are under imminent threat of a "large-scale ... Read more »
Patients rest while waiting to be treated inside El Fasher Hospital. Hospitals in El Fasher, North Darfur, have been repeatedly hit as violent fighting continues to escalate, leaving nowhere safe in the city. Sudan, July 2023.
