The World Health Organization says it is appalled by reports that more than 460 patients and their companions have been shot dead at the last partially-functional hospital in El Fasher, Sudan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/who-killing-sudan-hospital/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sudan #africa #darfur #who
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#Sudan #paramilitary forces killed hundreds including patients in a hospital after they seized #elFasher city in western #Darfur over the weekend, acc/to the #UN, displaced residents & aid workers, who described harrowing details of #atrocities.
WHO dir gen Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients & companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher. He said the WHO was “appalled & deeply shocked” by the reports.
#terrorism #RSF #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-hospital-rsf-darfur-fasher-who-3ac305299da5ee388429f3352ca5c6fa?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-29-Breaking+News
Witnesses told the AP that #RSF fighters—on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles—went from house to house, beating & shooting people, including women & children. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, witnesses said.
“It was a like a killing field,” Tajal-Rahman, a man in his 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. “Bodies everywhere & people bleeding & no one to help them.”
Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that #RSF fighters tortured & beat the detainees & shot at least 4 people Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women & girls, they said.
Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since Oct 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.
#SVAC #CRSV #LawsOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics #Sudan #Darfur #elFasher #WarCrimes
The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.
Witnesses told the AP that #RSF fighters—on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles—went from house to house, beating & shooting people, including women & children. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, witnesses said.
“It was a like a killing field,” Tajal-Rahman, a man in his 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. “Bodies everywhere & people bleeding & no one to help them.”
“The Janjaweed showed no mercy for anyone,” said Umm Amena, mother of 4 children who fled the city Monday after 2 days, using a Sudanese term for the #RSF.
Amena was among 3 dozen people, mostly women & children, who were detained for a day by RSF fighters in an abandoned house close to the Saudi Hospital in #elFasher.
AP spoke w/ Amena & 4 others who managed to flee el-Fasher arriving exhausted & dehydrated early Tues in nearby town Tawila, ~60km west of el-Fasher, which hosts >650k #displaced.
The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.
The #Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the #war, said fighters from the Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday “cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, & anyone else present in the wards.”
Sudanese residents & aid workers revealed harrowing details of atrocities by the #RSF, fighting since 2023 to take over Africa’s third largest nation, after they seized the army’s last stronghold in #Darfur after over 500 days of siege.
#Sudan #paramilitary forces killed hundreds including patients in a hospital after they seized #elFasher city in western #Darfur over the weekend, acc/to the #UN, displaced residents & aid workers, who described harrowing details of #atrocities.
WHO dir gen Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients & companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher. He said the WHO was “appalled & deeply shocked” by the reports.
#terrorism #RSF #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-hospital-rsf-darfur-fasher-who-3ac305299da5ee388429f3352ca5c6fa?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-29-Breaking+News
#Sudan #paramilitary forces killed hundreds including patients in a hospital after they seized #elFasher city in western #Darfur over the weekend, acc/to the #UN, displaced residents & aid workers, who described harrowing details of #atrocities.
WHO dir gen Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients & companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher. He said the WHO was “appalled & deeply shocked” by the reports.
#terrorism #RSF #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-hospital-rsf-darfur-fasher-who-3ac305299da5ee388429f3352ca5c6fa?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-29-Breaking+News
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🗨️ Unfortunately I could not find just ONE real (meaning no auto-feed) African news agency entry via US - provided #searchengines in #germany - not one! This is the situation on global #emergencyresponse, folks! We live in a digital world of ISR-US-Arab #news online, so it's impossible to even get valid reports from #darfur #sudan at this point.
I picked the Al Jazeera report and will try to get more geo data via relief web #africa in the upcoming hours 👇🏽
🗨️ Unfortunately I could not find just ONE real (meaning no auto-feed) African news agency entry via US - provided #searchengines in #germany - not one! This is the situation on global #emergencyresponse, folks! We live in a digital world of ISR-US-Arab #news online, so it's impossible to even get valid reports from #darfur #sudan at this point.
I picked the Al Jazeera report and will try to get more geo data via relief web #africa in the upcoming hours 👇🏽
Ook deze mensen hebben onze aandacht nodig! Het ene sluit het andere niet uit. Het is geen wedstrijd.
NOS: Unicef: duizenden ondervoede kinderen dreigen te sterven in belegerde stad in Sudan
"De VN-hulporganisatie Unicef roept de paramilitairen van de RSF met klem op hulpgoederen toe te laten tot de zwaar belegerde stad El-Fasher in de Sudanese regio Darfur. Volgens de kinderrechtenorganisatie lijden zo'n 6000 kinderen aan acute ondervoeding en lopen zij het risico te overlijden als zij geen speciale behandeling krijgen. In totaal zitten zo'n 130.000 kinderen vast in de stad.
De inwoners van de stad leven al 500 dagen in een belegerde stad. Ruim 600.000 mensen zijn ontheemd, de resterende 260.000 burgers leven in "uitzichtloze omstandigheden", zegt Unicef. "Ondervoeding, ziekte en geweld eisen dagelijks levens van kinderen." …"
#Sudan#Soedan#Darfur#ElFasher#Unicef#RSF #hongersnood #kinderen
Hundreds of thousands of people under siege in the Sudanese army's last holdout in the western Darfur region are running out of food and coming under constant artillery and drone barrages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/world/hunger-sudan-al-fashir/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #cholera #darfur #sudan #africa #hunger