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Death, disease and despair as fighting closes in on besieged Sudanese city
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Hundreds of people have died in recent months from acute malnutrition, women have had miscarriages, and scores of malaria cases are being registered every day.
The war in Sudan broke out on 15 April last year, pitting the army, headed by the country’s de facto leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the RSF, commanded by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The RSF and allied Arab militias have been targeting members of the Masalit ethnic group across Darfur, including in the city of El Geneina, where the UN believes up to 15,000 people were killed last year in two massacres.
Aid deliveries dried up, the UN pulled out of the city, other humanitarian organisations reduced their staff, and traders steered clear, leading to a rise in the cost of food and other goods.
On 1 May MSF said a mass screening conducted in March and April of more than 63,000 children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women had confirmed “a catastrophic and life-threatening malnutrition crisis” in the camp.
As the city is home to Arab and African communities, an all-out battle for control would cause massive civilian bloodshed and lead to revenge attacks across Darfur and beyond, said Toby Harward, the UN’s deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan.
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