US EditionThousands flee to overcrowded camps after Sudan’s paramilitary captures el-Fasher
More than 82,000 people have fled El-Fasher following RSF’s capture, with aid groups reporting severe malnutrition and urgent needs for shelter and medical support.
- On Nov. 4, the International Organization for Migration said around 82,000 people fled el-Fasher and surrounding areas after the RSF seized the city last week, heading to camps including Tawila.
- The conflict that began in April 2023 has spread across Darfur and Kordofan regions, and Jalale Getachew Birru said the fall of el-Fasher marks a strategic RSF victory but worsens human suffering.
- Since Oct. 26, more than 16,200 people have fled to overcrowded camps in Tawila, with Doctors Without Borders reporting 300 arrivals on Thursday and many tents improvised.
- Displaced people in Tawila face urgent shortages as Doctors Without Borders reports extreme malnutrition and 300 arrivals on Thursday strain resources; WHO estimates at least 40,000 killed nationwide.
- Some 12 million people have been displaced and nearly half the population face acute food insecurity, while Volker Türk, U.N. Human Rights Chief, warned el-Fasher civilians remain trapped and at risk.
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The United Nations human rights office in Sudan said "brutal attacks" were intensifying in the town of El-Fasher, after RSF paramilitary forces seized the town in the western Darfur region last month.
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Thousands flee to overcrowded camps after Sudan's paramilitary captures el-Fasher
Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the western Darfur region.
Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape the atrocities reported by a paramilitary force since they captured El-Fasher in western Darfur, an aid group reported on Saturday, and the UN human rights chief warned that many others are still trapped.
Khartoum: Al-Quds al-Arabi and agencies: civilians in El Fasher were shot in the streets, targeted in drone strikes and run-down by trucks, as described by witnesses of the first days of rapid support forces taking control of the city, presenting in their testimonies to Reuters a glimpse of the violent seizure of one of the largest Sudanese cities.
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