Sudan’s El-Fasher ‘An Epicentre of Human Suffering’, UN Says After Short Visit

Traumatised civilians left in Sudan’s El-Fasher after its capture by paramilitary RSF forces are living without water or sanitation in a city haunted by famine, says UN aid coordinator Denise Brown after making the agency’s first visit in almost two years.

El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur State, fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in October after more than 500 days of siege.

For the first time in nearly two years, a small UN humanitarian team was able to make a short…