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Fears grow for thousands trapped in Sudan's el-Fasher as few reach safety

An aid group reports that only a few thousand Sudanese have escaped atrocities by Sudan's paramilitary forces in el-Fasher city

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Top diplomats from Germany, Jordan and the UK call for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan war

Foreign ministers from Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom have called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan

The Independent UK

Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

The World Health Organization reports that gunmen who reportedly killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan's Darfur region returned three times to the facility during their assault

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Aid workers fear for those missing from a city in Sudan's Darfur region seized by paramilitary force

Aid workers are concerned that only a few people fleeing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's Darfur region have reached safety

The Independent UK

Sudanese paramilitary group accused of killing hundreds in North Darfur hospital

One witness said the city of el-Fasher was "like a killing field" after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized it over the weekend.

Euronews

African Union condemns atrocities, 'war crimes' in Sudan's El-Fasher

The African Union chairman condemned on Tuesday alleged "atrocities" and reported "war crimes" in Sudan's strategic hub of El-Fasher and called for an immediate halt to fighting. This comes after Sudan's army admitted on Monday it had withdrawn from the city.

Radio France Internationale

UN warns of ethnically motivated 'atrocities' in Sudan's El-Fasher

The UN rights chief warned Monday that the Sudanese city of El-Fasher was in an "extremely precarious situation", with the likelihood of "ethnically-motivated violations and atrocities" rising after paramilitary forces claimed control.

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Sudanese paramilitaries claim to have taken control of Darfur's El-Fasher

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it's taken full control of El-Fasher – the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the Darfur region in the west of the country.

Radio France Internationale

Death toll from RSF attack rises to 60 in Sudan's El-Fasher: activists

A drone and artillery attack killed at least 60 people at a displacement camp in Sudan's El-Fasher on Saturday, activists said, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifies its assault on the besieged western city.

Radio France Internationale

In besieged Sudan city, civilians face death if they try to escape

Civilians trapped in el-Fasher say the RSF is targeting those trying to escape.

Al Jazeera

Sudan Army Strike Kills At Least 12 In Darfur: Monitors

A war monitoring group said Sunday that an army drone strike on a clinic in the city of Nyala, western Sudan, under paramilitary control, had killed at least 12 people.

International Business Times

War in Sudan: Humanitarian, fighting, control developments, August 2025

Sudan’s civil war saw a number of developments on the battlefield as well as in diplomacy and the humanitarian crisis.

Al Jazeera

Children in Sudan’s el-Fasher ‘starving’ after 500 days of siege: UNICEF

UN agency warns children in North Darfur city remain cut off from aid and protection as fighting continues to rage.

Al Jazeera

Villagers offer harrowing accounts of one of the deadliest attacks in Sudan's civil war

When rebels stormed into a village last month in Sudan, they gunned down civilians in their homes or as they tried to flee

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Sudan's Rapid Support Forces kill 40 people in North Darfur displacement camp attack

Local rights groups say Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have attacked a displacement camp outside el-Fasher, killing 40 people

Radio France Internationale

Starvation spreads from camps to besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher

Months after famine was declared in nearby displacement camps, the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher is now seeing starvation deaths of its own, with no food aid entering and the UN’s World Food Programme warning of worsening conditions for the 300,000 people still trapped inside.

Al Jazeera

Why are people starving in Sudan’s el-Fasher?

A siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a famine in North Darfur’s capital el-Fasher.

Al Jazeera

Thousands in Sudan’s besieged el-Fasher at ‘risk of starvation’, UN warns

North Darfur’s capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.

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Al Jazeera

‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive

A deadly cholera outbreak adds to the misery in a region that has witnessed fighting between the army and the rebels.

International Business Times

UN Working For Ceasefire In Besieged Sudan City

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday he has been in contact with the warring sides in Sudan to try to reach a ceasefire in the besieged and starving city of El-Fasher.

Euronews

At least five killed in attack on aid convoy in Sudan’s western Darfur region, UN says

Sudan was plunged into a war more than two years ago, when tensions between the army and its rival paramilitary RSF exploded with street battles in the capital of Khartoum that quickly spread across the country.

Al Jazeera

Five UN food aid workers killed in Sudan ambush as hunger crisis deepens

Deadly attack on UN convoy in Sudan disrupts aid to hunger-stricken families in the war-torn country.

Al Jazeera

How RSF is adopting Israel’s ‘template for genocide’ in Sudan

For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.

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Sudan ‘horror knows no bounds’, says UN, as deaths in Darfur rise

UN rights chief says civilians ‘trapped in dire conditions’ in and around el-Fasher as RSF warns of further ‘bloodshed’.

Al Jazeera

‘A tree is worth more’: Sudanese civilians fleeing RSF attacks on Zamzam

Hundreds have been killed, injured, assaulted, kidnapped. Here are stories of painful loss from Darfur.

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