A year ago, war broke out between the Sudanese army and the RSF. Al-Fashir is the only town in the vast west of Darfur that is not yet under RSF control. The armed group already captured the capitals of four other states in Darfur last year.
The United Nations Security Council issued a statement expressing “deep concern” about an impending attack by the RSF and their “associated militias.” The council calls on the government army and the RSF to ‘de-escalate’ the situation. Last week, UN officials warned that the 800,000 residents of al-Fashir are in ‘grave and imminent danger’.
Even before the current civil war, a power struggle had been raging for months between the SAF government army of General and de facto leader of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (better known as Hemeti).
The UN calls the current situation in Sudan “one of the worst humanitarian crises” in recent history. Millions of civilians have fled the violence. An estimated half a million Sudanese left for Egypt, 570,000 people crossed the border into Chad and more than 130,000 people fled to South Sudan. About 18 million people face acute food insecurity.
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