US EditionSudan: Famine, Cholera, and Ethnic Massacres Loom Large Over North Darfur's Besieged Capital
The Rapid Support Forces' siege has cut off essential supplies to 260,000 civilians in El-Fasher, intensifying famine and disease, UNICEF and the UN report.
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Hunted, raped, starved: Sudan's journalists under siege in El-Fasher - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, October 1, 2025—In Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, journalists in El-Fasher are trapped under siege, enduring violence, hunger, and relentless bombardment alongside the people whose lives they report on. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a group that evolved from the notorious Janjaweed militias accused of atrocities in earlier Darfur conflicts, have been fighting the Sudanese army for control of Sudan since April 20…
Sudan: Famine, Cholera, and Ethnic Massacres Loom Large Over North Darfur's Besieged Capital
[People's Dispatch] About 260,000 civilians, half of them children, are trapped in the besieged city, cut off from food, water, and medical supplies by an advancing paramilitary, notorious for ethnic cleansing.
The city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, continues to be besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which seek to take over the city to install the capital of a parallel Government.
Children starve as El Fasher siege chokes off aid, UN says - Radio Tamazuj
Dozens of children and numerous older people have died from hunger and disease in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher over the past 40 days, the United Nations said Monday. Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for Secretary-General António Guterres, said the deaths occurred in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, and the adjoining Abu Shouk camp. He said funding shortages and rising costs have forced the shutdown of community kitchens, leav…
According to the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, the humanitarian situation is worsening daily in the capital of North Darfur, which has been under relentless siege for more than a year. “Civilians in El Fasher describe impossible choices as they remain trapped in the city or attempt to flee, only to be confronted with […]
In the war in Sudan, paramilitaries have been siegeing El Fasher, the capital of the state of Northern Darfur, for more than 500 days. They also use lethal drones and ground-to-air missiles in areas controlled by the army. Civilians live in hell: abuses, famine, rape.
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