El Fasher residents in the firing line as satellite images show camp targeted by paramilitary fighters.
Fierce fighting in Sudan's besieged city of El Fasher has become so intense that Mohamed Haroon Abdallah has been unable to bury his brother.
“At present approximately 100 football pitches-worth of civilian dwellings have been destroyed in the past two weeks of the fighting.” “In Darfur and El Fasher, civilians are being attacked and killed because of the colour of their skin, because of their ethnicity,” Alice Wairimu Nderitu The 47-year-old told the BBC he had sent his three children to live with their grandfather but his house was also hit. The family is now sheltering in its ruins.Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said staff at a hospital it operated in the city were struggling to cope.
The situation is no different at Saudi Hospital, run by the Ministry of Health, which has been partially damaged.
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