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RSF Shelling Kills 24 in El‑Fasher as 500‑Day Siege Drives Child Hunger, UN Warns

UNICEF urges unfettered relief to reach thousands of malnourished children cut off from care.

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FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit secure the area where Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
A humanitarian worker says El-Fasher's residents face hunger, rampant disease, no clean water and no access to medical care

Overview

  • Sudan Doctors Network says RSF fire hit the central market and Awlad al-Reef, killing at least 24 people and wounding 55.
  • About 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, remain trapped without aid inside the city as roughly 600,000 have fled El‑Fasher and nearby camps.
  • UNICEF estimates 6,000 children with severe acute malnutrition are without treatment after services were suspended when supplies were exhausted.
  • More than 1,100 grave violations have been verified, with hospitals and schools struck repeatedly and reports this week of seven children killed at Abu Shouk camp.
  • Sudan’s cholera outbreak has reached nearly 100,000 suspected cases and about 2,400 deaths nationwide since July 2024, including roughly 5,000 cases and 98 deaths in Darfur.