"Sudan's Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network, after the paramilitary group claimed control of the city on Sunday. The WHO secretary general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was appalled and deeply shocked at reports that more than 460 people had been killed at the Saudi maternity hospital, without assigning blame, in a post on X."
"El Fasher, once a city of more than 1 million people, has been under siege by the RSF since May 2024. In August that year, famine was declared in the Zamzam camp for displaced people, south of the city. In April, the RSF killed as many as 2,000 people when it seized the camp, which at the time housed 500,000 people."
"Experts had also been warning that an RSF takeover of El Fasher would most likely be a repeat of its capture of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, in 2023. The group killed as many as 15,000 civilians then, mostly from non-Arab groups. Former children's hospital The RSF grew out of the Janjaweed Arab militias, which were accused of committing genocide of African ethnic groups under the orders of former president Omar al-Bashir in Darfur in 2003."
Hundreds of patients and medical staff were killed inside the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, with reports indicating more than 460 fatalities. The WHO secretary general said he was appalled and deeply shocked at the reported deaths. The Sudan Doctors Network stated that the Rapid Support Forces killed everyone they found inside the hospital. Fighting between the Sudanese armed forces and the RSF has raged since April 2023. The RSF has besieged El Fasher since May 2024 and now holds all five Darfur regional capitals after the army abandoned the city. Prior RSF seizures have caused mass civilian deaths and famine in displacement camps.
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