#sudan-civil-war

#sudan-civil-war

Despite Sudan's paramilitary agreeing to a proposal from the United States and Arab powers for a humanitarian ceasefire on Thursday, members of Toronto's Sudanese community say they feel abandoned by the Canadian government amid escalating violence in Sudan. On Oct. 26, rebel forces took control of the Sudanese city of El Fasher after an 18-month siege, followed by reports of extortion, rape and mass killings of civilians.

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.