El Fasher

UN Human Rights Council to Hold Emergency Session on Sudan’s El-Fasher Crisis

The UN Human Rights Council announced Thursday that it would hold an urgent session next week on the situation in Sudan's violence-ravaged western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries. The United Nations' top rights body said in a statement that it would "hold a special session on the human rights situation in and around El ...

Sudan's RSF Claims Control of Last Army Stronghold in Darfur

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had seized full control of El-Fasher, the last major city in the expansive Darfur region not in its hands, in a potential turning point in the country's unrelenting civil war. The announcement came just hours after it claimed to have captured the army's main base in the city, which it ...