“The situation in Sudan is tragic.”
Across the weekend, heavy fighting intensified in El Fasher, with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seizing control of the city. We have spoken to Adeela, one of our Sudanese partners, who have shared just how terrible the escalation in fighting is.
With the RSF blocking routes to exit the city, over 250,000 people are currently trapped. As intense shelling and ground assaults continue, there have been reports of the RSF killing civilians as they try to escape.
For the past 18 months, El Fasher has been cut off from food, aid and medicine with a famine being declared in August 2024 (UN). Since a deadly escalation in fighting in April 2023, both the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been accused of committing war crimes, with the UN high commissioner for human rights, saying the “risk of further large-scale, ethnically motivated violations and atrocities in El Fasher is mounting by the day.”
