"The world is coming to learn of the horrors of El Fasher not from visceral evidence but through silence and absence. No independent news media have been able to access the Sudanese city in the state of North Darfur, which fell in late October after more than 500 days of miserable siege. Satellite images show hollowed-out neighborhoods, bloodstained grounds and traces of mass graves."
"The civil war has spawned the world's worst humanitarian crisis. About 14 million people, half of whom are children, have been forced from their homes. Famine and diseases such as cholera stalk swaths of the country, especially El Fasher and its environs, where witnesses described how besieged residents subsisted off animal feed and weeds. Then there's the direct toll of war, including the RSF's apparent systematic violence against non-Arab ethnic and tribal groups in Darfur."
El Fasher fell in late October after more than 500 days of siege, leaving neighborhoods hollowed out and evidence of bloodstains and possible mass graves. No independent news media have accessed the city, and satellite imagery and witness accounts document emptied hospitals, missing patients, and children arriving at displacement camps without relatives. The Rapid Support Forces have consolidated control across Darfur, carrying out widespread killings, rape, and apparent systematic violence against non-Arab ethnic and tribal groups. The conflict has produced the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with about 14 million displaced, severe famine, cholera outbreaks, and up to 150,000 people missing.
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