The escalating conflict between Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s army and Hemeti’s RSF spreads after clashes near El-Fasher – a humanitarian hub in Darfur largely spared from the year-long war in Sudan.
Fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, which supports army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the southeastern state of Gedaref on 28 March, 2024.
But North Darfur’s El-Fasher, the last state capital not under RSF control in the vast Darfur region, had been a site of comparative stability and a key humanitarian refuge.Also receive offers from The Africa Report's partners He added that “such an attack would be devastating for civilians in the city”, which has functioned as “a humanitarian hub for the UN that ensures life-saving assistance” across Darfur.Sudan’s 48 million peopleThe US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, posted on X on Saturday that she was “gravely concerned by reports of escalating conflict” in El-Fasher that risked a “humanitarian catastrophe in an already dire situation”.
Peace in the key city was similarly threatened last year before local armed groups successfully negotiated a makeshift truce – acting as peacekeepers in what the UN called “a fragile status quo”.According to a UN expert report, the RSF had “refrained from attacking after informal negotiations with the Darfurian armed movements there”.
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