The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world’s largest humanitarian disaster, a leading hunger agency says. The major city of El-Fasher has been particularly hard-hit.
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Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre, ‘hero’ doctors abducted
The last hospital in Darfur’s el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken.
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As Darfur’s last city falls, fears grow ‘there will be no one left to save’
Sudan’s army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.
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‘Trapped and terrified’: warnings as Sudanese militia advance on Darfur city
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim they’ve seized the Sudanese army’s last base in El Fasher, Darfur — trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears the country could split in two.
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ICC finds former Sudan militia leader guilty of war crimes in Darfur
The International Criminal Court in The Hague handed down its first-ever Darfur war crimes conviction, finding Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb, guilty of atrocities committed more than two decades ago.
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Darfur: bearing the brunt of over two years of civil war in Sudan
An attack on what would have been the first aid delivery to the beseiged city of El Fasher in over a year has dealt a major blow in the Darfur region. The assault comes as humanitarian groups warn that collapsing healthcare, unrelenting violence, and a paralyzed aid effort are pushing civilians to breaking point.
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Photos: Two years of war in Sudan
Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.
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Sudan’s war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place
As “pathway to peace talks” are held in London – minus the main protagonists – Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.
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Sudan’s biggest refugee camp was already struck with famine. Now it’s being shelled
The siege, blamed on the Rapid Support Forces, has sparked a new humanitarian catastrophe and marks an alarming turning point in the Darfur region, already overrun by violence.
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Here’s what life is like in a city in the grip of Sudan’s brutal war
The Sudanese city of Omdurman lives in the shadow of war, facing daily shelling and battered medical services. But some people are trying to eke out a return to life, however precarious.
