#sudan-civil-war

#sudan-civil-war

But the alliance between the Sudanese Armed Forces ( SAF), led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the R.S.F., led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, quickly crumbled, and by April of 2023, the two sides were openly at war. For two and a half years, that conflict has become a humanitarian catastrophe, with an estimated death toll in the hundreds of thousands, and possibly as many as four hundred thousand. More than ten million have been internally and externally displaced.

Fears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher, Sudan, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in the country's civil war. The group said on Sunday that it had seized control of the army's main base in the city in Darfur, where famine was declared in a displacement camp last year.

The RSF now effectively controls the entire western region of Darfur after capturing the besieged city of el-Fasher on October 26. During the RSF's invasion of el-Fasher, it began a campaign of mass killing against civilians fleeing to remote villages and towns. The local monitor, Sudan Doctors Network, said at least 1,500 people were murdered in 48 hours. The RSF also captured the strategic town of Baraa in North Kordofan state at the end of October.