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Tens of thousands fleeing on foot amid atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher

·November 1, 2025·2 min read

Since the powerful paramilitary group made a major incursion into the city last week, the UN human rights office has received “horrendous accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks against humanitarian workers, looting, abductions and forced displacement,” said Seif Magango, spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR). Speaking...

‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls

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·October 30, 2025·4 min read

Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, the UN’s top relief official Tom Fletcher said “women and girls are being raped, people being mutilated and killed – with utter impunity,” adding: “We cannot hear the screams, but – as we sit here today – the horror is continuing.” After overrunning the...

Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead

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·October 30, 2025·2 min read

The World Health Organization says it’s appalled and deeply shocked by reports that 460 patients and their companions have been killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in the city. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that prior to this latest attack, WHO has verified 285 attacks on healthcare in Sudan with at...

‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan’s El Fasher

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·October 29, 2025·2 min read

Senior UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official in Sudan, Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet, said there had been “significant outflow out of El Fasher into Tawila” – around 60 kilometres west of the city – which is already hosting around 650,000 displaced. New arrivals have recounted stories of widespread ethnically and politically motivated...

UN alarmed by ‘terrifying’ situation in Sudan’s El Fasher, calls for immediate ceasefire

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·October 28, 2025·1 min read

Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said he was “deeply alarmed” by reports of civilian casualties and forced displacement as fierce fighting engulfs the city. “With fighters pushing further into the city and escape routes cut off, hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped and terrified – shelled, starving, and...

Sudan: Türk ‘appalled’ by continued killing of civilians in El Fasher

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·October 12, 2025·1 min read

This follows reports that at least 53 civilians were killed and more than 60 injured by members of the Rapid Support Forces militia, the RSF, between 5 and 8 October alone. Preliminary information from the area – the last government-controlled city in North Darfur – suggests the number may be...

Sudan: El Fasher mosque and hospital attacks leave at least 20 dead

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·October 9, 2025·2 min read

On Thursday, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reported that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group reportedly opened fire on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Saudi hospital and a local mosque, where displaced families had sought refuge.  The Saudi hospital “is the last functioning medical facility in the city,...

Sudan: UN rights chief calls for urgent action to protect civilians in El Fasher

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·October 6, 2025·1 min read

“El Fasher is on the precipice of an even greater catastrophe if urgent measures are not taken to loosen the armed vice upon the city and to protect civilians,” he said. Reports of the RSF deploying long-range drones in South Darfur have heightened fears of an escalation in the coming...

UN chief sounds alarm over worsening crisis in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·September 21, 2025·1 min read

El Fasher has been under a tightening siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than 500 days, with attacks against civilians intensifying in recent weeks. The majority of residents in the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp have reportedly fled following relentless shelling and raids. “The fighting must...

Sudan: Guterres calls for ceasefire in El Fasher, deplores ‘relentless’ militia attacks

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·August 30, 2025·1 min read

António Guterres said he was “appalled by the relentless attacks” by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia on the North Darfur state capital, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement. The paramilitary group and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been battling for control of devastated country since April...

Sudan: ‘Devastating tragedy’ for children in El Fasher after 500 days of siege

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·August 28, 2025·1 min read

Around 260,000 civilians – including 130,000 children – remain trapped in the area’s main camp for internally displaced people, enduring desperate conditions without aid for more than 16 months. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two...

‘Only hunger and bombs’ for besieged civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·August 13, 2025·2 min read

At least 57 civilians were killed in the attack, which included the Abu Shouk displacement camp on the outskirts of the city, and UN human rights office, OHCHR, is also following up on allegations of summary executions there. “It is with dismay that we yet again witness an unimaginable...