UN estimates over 2,000 Sudanese pregnant women have fled el-Fasher to escape conflict
RSF forces seized El Fasher's last maternity hospital, leaving 6,000+ pregnant women without care and forcing dangerous displacements amid ongoing conflict, U.N. reports 60% acute malnutrition.
- Pregnant women, including Rasha Ahmed who is 8 months pregnant, fled el-Fasher in Sudan due to violence by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, who attacked civilians and a maternity hospital.
- Ahmed traveled for 14 days, some of it on foot without her missing husband, to reach the displacement camp in Tawila with her two children.
- The rampage left over 6,000 pregnant women without access to maternal care, and 60% of those who arrived in Tawila were acutely malnourished, according to aid groups.
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Sudan massacres 'so appalling they can be seen from space', warns Foreign Secretary - The Mirror
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper described how satellite images show bodies piled high and sand stained by pools of blood after Sudanese city of el-Fasher fell to paramilitaries
Dozens of Pregnant Women Flee From Sudan's El-Fasher, Risking Their Lives, Babies
A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the time, trekked for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) across unsafe roads, along with her two children, until she found safe transportation to a shelter across the country.
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Dozens of pregnant women flee from Sudan's el-Fasher, risking their lives and babies
A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the time, trekked for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) across unsafe roads, along with her two children, until she found safe transportation to a shelter across the country.
Migration pressure is increasing day by day in Tawila, a town near El Fasher in Sudan that fell to rebels after the fall of the city, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on Tuesday, highlighting the poor conditions for internally displaced people.
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