Al-Fashir - Wikipedia
WEBAl-Fashir or El Fasher (Arabic: الفاشر, romanized: al-Fāshir) is the capital city of North Darfur, Sudan. It is a city in the Darfur region of southwestern Sudan, 195 kilometres (121 mi) northeast of Nyala, Sudan. [2]
How El Fasher went from Darfur’s safe haven to all-out war
WEBMay 29, 2024 · This is the current situation in El Fasher, one of Darfur's largest cities and the latest epicentre of the year-long war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – a war that has already displaced some nine million people and left vast numbers on the brink of famine.
Sudan's El Fasher battle: Satellite images of Darfur show RSF ... - BBC
WEBMay 23, 2024 · The satellite images analysed by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) show how the RSF is targeting civilian dwellings in and around El Fasher, the army’s last stronghold in...
A Massacre Threatens Darfur — Again - The New York Times
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Now famine threatens and the two camps in the north are engulfed by fighting. A map shows the three largest displaced camps in El Fasher. Zamzam, the most populous, is south of the city. At...
Sudan's El Fasher battle: Satellite images of Darfur show RSF ...
WEBMay 23, 2024 · The satellite images analysed by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) show how the RSF is targeting civilian dwellings in and around El Fasher, the army’s last stronghold in Darfur.
Surrounded by Fighters and Haunted by Famine, Sudan City Fears …
WEBApril 29, 2024. Fears of renewed ethnic slaughter in the Sudanese region of Darfur, where genocidal violence killed as many as 300,000 people two decades ago, have soared in recent days, with a...
Sudan: UN urges immediate action to stop fighting in El Fasher
WEB2 days ago · Situation in El Fasher. El Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur and a city of nearly one million people, has been a focal point of Sudan’s conflict.Despite repeated calls from the Security Council for a halt to the fighting, intense shelling and airstrikes have continued, devastating hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
A battle rages for a key city in Sudan’s ravaged western region
WEBMay 30, 2024 · Map: The Economist. Conquering el-Fasher would enable the RSF to control the key transit route from neighbouring Libya, through which it gets much of its fuel and arms from foreign...
“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city
WEBAug 29, 2024 · Of those in the Darfur region, many were detected in and around el-Fasher. A satellite analysis of thermal scarring (indicating burned buildings) by researchers at Yale shows how the siege...
Amid ‘Atrocious’ Humanitarian Situation in North Darfur, Senior ...
WEB2 days ago · A new wave of large-scale fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces broke out in the city of El Fasher on 12 September, a senior UN official told the Security Council today, reporting that hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the capital of North Darfur, Sudan, are now “at risk of …
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