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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...

Giving birth in the shadow of Sudan’s war

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·October 26, 2025·3 min read

In the heart of Sudan’s White Nile State, to the south of the country’s capital, Khartoum, Kosti Maternity Hospital handles thousands of deliveries a year, but the ongoing war, the destruction of regional infrastructure and the displacement millions of people, many of them women, has put huge strain on its...

UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur

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·October 5, 2025·2 min read

All this, while aid convoys remain blocked from reaching hundreds of thousands trapped close to the frontlines and as the military government and their rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia battle for control of Sudan. Speaking from Tawila, 50 kilometres (about 31 miles) from El Fasher in North Darfur, Humanitarian...

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’s people tortured and killed in ‘slaughterhouses’, rights probe says

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·September 10, 2025·2 min read

Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, insisted that both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had carried out atrocity crimes. Among the testimonies gathered for the...

‘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...

Malnutrition crisis deepens for Sudan’s children as war rages on

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·July 12, 2025·2 min read

Across the five states that make up Darfur, UNICEF data revealed a 46 per cent increase in the number of children treated for SAM in January to May 2025 compared to the same period last year. The rate of acute malnutrition has surpassed emergency levels set by the World Health...

UN rights chief calls on South Sudan’s warring parties to end renewed fighting

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·May 23, 2025·1 min read

At least 75 civilians have been killed in hostilities between the national army (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) – which is both a political party and militia group loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar – and their respective allied armed groups, said UN human rights...