Hunger mounts, cemeteries grow in Sudan's besieged al-Fashir

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Source: Reuters

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people under siege in the Sudanese army's last holdout in the western Darfur region are running out of food and coming under constant artillery and drone barrages, while those who flee risk cholera and violent attacks. Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur state, is the biggest remaining frontline in the region between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), under fire at a pivotal point in a civil war now well into its third year.

The war between the Sudanese army and the RSF erupted in April 2023 when the former allies clashed over plans to integrate their forces. The RSF made quick gains in central Sudan, including the capital Khartoum, but the army pushed them westward this year, leading to an intensification in fighting in al-Fashir.

The city's fall would give the RSF control over nearly all of Darfur - a vast region bordering Libya, Chad, Central African Republic and South Sudan - and pave the way for what analysts say could be Sudan's de facto division.
Besieged along with the army and its allies are hundreds of thousands of al-Fashir's residents and people displaced by previous attacks, many living in camps that monitors say are already in famine.

One doctor, who asked not to be named for her safety, said hunger was an even bigger problem than the shelling.
"The children are malnourished, the adults are malnourished. Even I today haven't had any breakfast because I can't find anything," she said. The RSF has blocked food supplies and aid convoys trying to reach the city have been attacked, locals said. Prices for the goods traders are able to smuggle in cost more than five times the national average.


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/hunger-mounts-cemeteries-grow-sudans-besieged-al-fashir-2025-08-04/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. God damn shame

And the world ignores them.


FYI - You can tag a UNICEF Donation for Sudan

[maxsolomon]

2. Why hasn't Trump stopped this one?

He claimed credit for ending 6 wars last week.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Hmm

We know why. And the media is complicit.

[maxsolomon]

6. I actually do know why - the US has no sway in Sudan and never has, plus Trump is a fool.

But I don't know why "the media" is complicit.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. They choose to not report on it

Just like they chose not to report on Rwanda, and when they did - trivialize it as 'tribal'.

I was in DC at the time of Rwanda.

[maxsolomon]

8. I've consistently been reading about Sudan in DU's Most-Hated Newspaper - for decades.

The famine and conflict in Darfur, the creation of South Sudan, the revolution that overthrew Omar Al-Bashir, the resulting short-lived joy of young Sudanese, and now the current Civil War. But I read the front section beyond the headlines above the fold.

When you accuse "The Media", that's just too broad a brush, because that doesn't include DU's Most-Hated Newspaper.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Oh well

To each their own. I don't trust the media and I'm allowed to have an opinion on all of them that differs from yours.

It is what it is.

[maxsolomon]

11. Everything is what it is.

nt

[question everything]

5. Stop? ICE is, or planning to, send people to the Sudan

[maxsolomon]

12. South Sudan.

Same difference, I know.

[BaronChocula]

4. Interesting this is going on now

as we look back on Live Aid and USA for Africa on their 40th anniversary. No concerts or recordings to mitigate these atrocities.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. I'm afraid to 'write'

The quiet part out loud.