{"id":39289,"date":"2024-05-16T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39289"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:33:15","slug":"at-least-56-people-dead-in-sudans-north-darfur-state-doctors-without-borders-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39289","title":{"rendered":"At least 56 people dead in Sudan\u2019s North Darfur state, Doctors Without Borders says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 56 people died in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan\u2019s North Darfur state, between last Friday and Wednesday, as \u201cdeadly fighting escalates,\u201d Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the city\u2019s South Hospital, 454 casualties have arrived since last Friday, of whom 56 \u201chave succumbed to their injuries,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msf.org\/sudan-nowhere-safe-deadly-fighting-escalates-el-fasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the humanitarian organization<\/a>. MSF added that \u201cthe wounded and death toll are likely far higher, since the fighting continues to be so intense that many people cannot reach the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNorth Darfur had been a relatively safe haven compared to other parts of Darfur,\u201d MSF added. \u201cNow, there are snipers in the streets, heavy shelling is taking place, and nowhere in the city is safe at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Violence in North Darfur has intensified, as the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been encircling El Fasher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HRL_YaleSPH\/status\/1790885528134361120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report from the Yale School of Public Health<\/a>\u2019s Humanitarian Research Lab on Wednesday confirmed \u201csignificant conflict-related damage in the eastern and southeastern neighborhoods of El Fasher city between 10\u201314 May.\u201d That is consistent with reports that the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) \u201chave engaged in expanded and repeated ground fighting and bombardment in\u201d the city, the Yale report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN Deputy Special Representative for Sudan Clementine Nkweta-Salami said Wednesday that \u201chostilities have been escalating\u201d in El Fasher, \u201cputting an entire city in peril.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States sanctioned two RSF commanders on Wednesday for their role in leading the paramilitary group\u2019s operations in Darfur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe RSF military operation to encircle and besiege El Fasher, North Darfur, has endangered the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians,\u201d a US Department of State spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Civil war in Sudan between the SAF and RSF broke out in April 2023. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, since the war\u2019s outbreak more than 8.8 million people have fled their homes and 24.8 million people are in need of assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: At least 56 people died in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan\u2019s North Darfur state, between last Friday and Wednesday, as \u201cdeadly fighting escalates,\u201d Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement. At the city\u2019s South Hospital, 454 casualties have arrived since last Friday, of whom 56 \u201chave succumbed to their injuries,\u201d&nbsp;according to the humanitarian organization. MSF added that \u201cthe wounded and death toll are likely far higher, since the fighting continues to be so intense that many people cannot reach the hospital.\u201d \u201cNorth Darfur had been a relatively safe haven compared to other parts of Darfur,\u201d MSF added&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39291,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions\/39291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}