US warns of impending 'large-scale massacre' in capital of Sudan's North Darfur
The US ambassador to the United Nations on Monday warned of an impending "large-scale massacre" in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, a humanitarian hub in the Darfur region.
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Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening.
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.
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"Tragically, genocide has returned to Darfur, along with mass atrocities being committed throughout Sudan in an escalating year-old war. But this time it has been met with a deafening silence. The only living creatures that are thriving in this environment are the vultures, feeding on corpses left in the streets to rot."
"The RSF is militarily backed by the United Arab Emirates and has profited greatlyfrom selling conflict gold to Dubai, Chad and Russia, which seeks a base on the Red Sea. The RSF has used genocidal violence and mass rape against non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur and mass atrocities in other regions to gain territory."
"With 10.7 million people already displaced, Sudan has the largest child refugee crisis in the world. The death toll is unknown because the nation’s medical system is collapsing. In one Darfur displaced camp, a child is dying every two hours. Immunizations have been dramatically reduced, setting many areas up for fresh epidemics. The school system has also cratered, while kidnapping and sexual slavery are on the rise. The capital city of Khartoum is being destroyed block by block, and religious persecution is spiking.
Experts say this is becoming the worst hunger crisis in the world in decades. Seven million people face the prospect of mass starvation by June."
UN Security Council concerned over ethnically-based killings in Sudan's North Darfur
The U.N. Security Council on Saturday expressed its “deep concern” over an imminent attack on al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur region by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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"Al-Fashir is the last major city in the vast, western Darfur region not under control of the RSF. The RSF and its allies swept through four other Darfur state capitals last year, and were blamed for a campaign of ethnically driven killings against non-Arab groups and other abuses in West Darfur."
