Escalating violence in Sudan's North Darfur state has left dozens dead and people trapped in El Fasher city which is home to around 800,000 people, many displaced due to fighting.
Escalating violence in Sudan 's North Darfur state has left dozens dead and people trapped in El Fasher city which is home to around 800,000 people, many displaced due to fighting."The Rapid Support Forces are reportedly encircling El Fasher, suggesting a. Simultaneously, the Sudan ese Armed Forces appear to be positioning themselves", the statement added.This escalation of tensions is in an area already on the brink of famine.
Since the RSF began their push into the state capital El-Fasher, at least 43 people have been reportedly killed, including women and children.Civilians are trapped in the city, the only one in Darfur still in the hands of the Sudanese Armed ForcesMr. Türk noted that the dire situation had been made worse by a severe shortage of essential supplies, as delivery trucks"are unable to freely transit through Rapid Support Forces-controlled territory".
He added that the RSF had burned down villages in western El-Fasher, including Durma, Umoshosh, Sarafaya and Ozbani,Last year, fighting and attacks between the ethnic Arab Rizeigat tribe and the ethnic African Masalit people in West Darfur left hundreds of civilians dead or injured and thousands displaced, the High Commissioner noted, as he called for an end to the more than year-long conflict.
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