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Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts
Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’ Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network, after the paramilitary group claimed control of the…
Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group
Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days Reports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region over the weekend. Video released by local activists…
Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher
RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp Fears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in Sudan’s civil…
Scores killed by RSF drone strike on mosque in besieged Sudanese city
First responders say 75 worshippers dead as paramilitaries push to capture last foothold of Sudanese army in Darfur A drone strike by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has killed 75 people worshipping in a mosque, first responders have said, as the group continued its push to capture…
WHO says attack on Sudanese hospital killed more than 40 civilians
Five health workers reportedly among the dead in West Kordofan as paramilitary RSF blames Sudanese military The head of the World Health Organization has condemned an attack on a hospital in Sudan that he said had killed more than 40 civilians, as the country’s civil war, which has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, rages…
US revokes all visas for South Sudanese over country’s failure to repatriate citizens
State department ‘taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further entry’, secretary of state says Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from…
Sudanese military reports sweeping gains in battle for capital
Army making rapid advances across the country and closing in on RSF-held Republican Palace in Khartoum Sudan’s brutal civil war appears to be approaching a decisive phase as the country’s military reported sweeping gains in the symbolic battle for the capital. As a ruinous conflict, often characterised by bloody stalemate, nears its two-year anniversary, the…