The Latest Breaking News from El Fasher

Civilians in Sudanese city El Fasher 'at risk of mass killings and starvation'

Mass killings and starvation threaten hundreds of thousands of people trapped in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur, as fighting closes in, the charity Doctors Without Borders has warned its latest report.

Radio France Internationale · Jul 4, 2025

‘Multiple casualties’ reported after attack on UN aid convoy in Darfur

Trucks carrying food to famine-threatened city targeted in RSF-controlled Al Koma in western Sudan

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2025

‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp

On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emerging

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2025

Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70, says WHO chief

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it was ‘the only functional hospital in El Fasher’

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2025

Sudan’s brutal war has become many wars, making peace even harder to reach

Sudan’s war runs grimly on. The two main protagonists (though there are others involved) are each claiming local victories. The Sudanese army appears to be slowly regaining control of the ruined capital, Khartoum, and has recovered some ground it lost elsewhere in Sudan. And the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2024

‘In El Fasher you face only death’: Sudan city empties as paramilitaries close in

Hungry people run risk of shelling, bandits and militias on roads out as Rapid Support Forces try to take city

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2024

With more than a million lives at risk in Sudan, the UN must make a decisive intervention. If not now, when?

This is a critical time for global leadership. There must be an urgent plan and a firm resolve, and UK ministers must demand action, says shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2024

Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's capital, UN says

Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2024

‘We’ve lost everything’: inside a Sudanese town where children die of hunger every day

People fleeing conflict in North Darfur seek refuge in Tawila – but find food and medical aid scarce

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2024

Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

Tom Perriello condemns tactics of Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese military before peace talks in Geneva

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2024