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Drone Strike Kills 15 in El‑Fasher Market as U.S. Works to Open Aid Access

UN investigators say the recent attack on a mosque in the besieged city could amount to a war crime.

FILE - Sudanese displaced families take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Omdurman, Sudan, located across the Nile River from Khartoum, on Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo, file)
The United Nations estimates that children make up around half of the 260,000 civilians trapped in the city, which has been cut off from nearly all external aid
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Infographic with a map showing areas controlled by the army, the Rapid Support Forces and neutral groups in Sudan as of September 23, 2025, according to the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute and the AFP

Overview

  • The market strike in North Darfur’s capital killed 15 and wounded 12, according to a local medical worker and the Resistance Committees, who blamed the RSF.
  • Days earlier, at least 75 worshippers, including children and medical staff, were killed in a dawn strike on Al‑Safiya Mosque that UNICEF and a UN fact‑finding mission linked to RSF drones.
  • El‑Fasher has been under a tightened siege for more than 500 days, with the UN estimating about 260,000 civilians trapped as hospitals run out of supplies and cholera cases rise.
  • U.S. Africa adviser Massad Boulos said a mechanism with the RSF to allow humanitarian deliveries into El‑Fasher is being finalized with WFP, the ICRC and NGOs, with hoped‑for movement in the coming days.
  • Local medics report a surge in hunger deaths, saying at least 23 people died of malnutrition in September, while UNICEF notes over 10,000 children treated for severe acute malnutrition this year.