US EditionUN makes first visit to Sudan’s el-Fasher since its fall, finding dire conditions
UN team found al-Fashir largely empty with evidence of mass atrocities and famine after RSF takeover; over 100,000 fled, UNICEF reports severe child malnutrition in Darfur region.
- Large parts of al-Fashir city in Sudan are destroyed, with people living in precarious conditions amidst lack of sanitation and water after the paramilitary takeover.
- The city is described as a 'crime scene' and the 'epicentre of human suffering', with reported mass atrocities, massacres, torture, and sexual violence, as well as potential mass graves evident from satellite images.
- While aid workers negotiated access and visited a hospital, their movements were limited, and the city is facing a declared famine, with only a small market operating and limited food supplies.
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First aid groups to enter Sudan’s el-Fasher describe horrors
Aid workers allowed into Sudan’s el-Fasher for the first time since it fell to militants described traumatized civilians living on the verge of famine, characterizing the largely deserted city as the “epicenter of human suffering.” After a 500-day siege, the city — which once held more than a million people — is “a ghost of its former self,” a UN aid official told AFP, with most fleeing the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of c…
Aid workers find little life in Sudan's al-Fashir after paramilitary takeover
International aid staff who accessed Sudan's al-Fashir for the first time since its takeover by a paramilitary force found the city largely deserted, with a few people sheltering in buildings or under plastic sheets, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
Sudan: The city was captured in October by the paramilitary group RSF. Previous investigations and witness statements point to mass killings in the Sudanese…
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