The provincial capital of North Darfur and a city of nearly one million people, El Fasher, has been the centre of the conflict in Sudan.
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| Families flee war-torn Sudan. Photo: Getty Images |
Despite calls by the Security Council repeatedly, for a halt to the fighting, heavy shelling and airstrikes have have not stopped, devastating hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
The humanitarian situation in El Fasher has increasingly worsened, with more than 700,000 Internally Displaced Persons at immediate risk.
Civilians, women and children particularly, face serious threats and weakening access to healthcare, as well as widespread food insecurity affecting 1.7 million people in the area.
In the Zamzam Camp, famine has been declared. It is a site sheltering about half a million people on the remote parts of El Fasher.
There are other thirteen (13) localities identified at risk of famine in North Darfur.
According to news.un.org:
Both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), along with their allied militias, continue to flout international humanitarian and human rights laws, said Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa at the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), while addressing the Security Council.
“Violations include summary executions, abductions and enforced disappearances, arbitrary and incommunicado detention of civilians by both parties, subjecting many to torture and other human rights violations,” she said.
She also raised deep concern over the shrinking civic space, ethnically motivated attacks and hate speech, and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, calling for immediate action to halt the fighting.
