Sudanese seek refuge underground in besieged Darfur city

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Stench Of Death As Sudan Army, Paramilitaries Battle For Capital

In a war-ravaged neighbourhood of Sudan's capital Khartoum, the stench from a gaping sewage pit is unbearable as Red Crescent workers pull a bloated body from deep underground.

Sudanese seek underground refuge in besieged Darfur as civil war drags on

Sudanese paramilitary shelling of El-Obeid on Friday killed six persons, including a child, a doctor said, just weeks after the Army broke a prolonged siege of the key southern city.

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Trapped underground: Sudanese families dig for survival in besieged Darfur

El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, is the only major city in Darfur still under army control, making it a strategic prize. The RSF has tried for months to seize it

Sudanese seek refuge underground in besieged Darfur city

Beneath the broken earth of the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher in the western region of Darfur, Nafisa Malik clutches her five children close.As shells rain down, the 45-year-old mother tries to shield them in a cramped hole barely big enough to crouch in."Time slows down here," Malik said, from her home near El-Fasher's Hajer Gadou market."We sit in the darkness, listening, trying to guess when it's over," she told AFP by phone.