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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Mat Nashed

Hungry, scared Darfur civilians fear RSF attack, plead for army help

A handout photograph from January 2024, shows a woman and baby at Zamzam camp, near el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan [Mohamed Zakaria/MSF/Reuters]

Civilians in Sudan’s North Darfur’s capital, el-Fasher, and surrounding towns are starving.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have imposed a siege on them for about a year, yet they managed to forestall an invasion thanks to the Joint Forces – an array of local armed factions backed by the army.

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