{"id":24826,"date":"2024-06-12T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=24826"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:51:29","slug":"the-escalation-of-violence-in-el-fasher-north-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/the-escalation-of-violence-in-el-fasher-north-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Escalation of Violence in El Fasher, North Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNICEF<\/strong><\/p>\n

The deteriorating security situation and the intense conflict in and around El Fasher, Darfur, have led to a significantly growing displacement of the civilian population from the area. The scarcity of clean drinking water and healthcare poses a particularly grave threat to the displaced, sick, injured, and children.
\n\u201cBasic services, such as water and healthcare, are at risk of being disrupted. The conflict over the Golo water reservoir – which serves as one of the primary water sources for an estimated 270,000 people in the city and nearby communities – is putting it at high risk of being damaged or destroyed. This will lead to families and children being cut off from safe and adequate water and increase the risk of water-borne diseases in a region already torn by war. Children suffering from acute malnutrition and weakened immune systems will be particularly in danger.
\n\u201cUNICEF calls on all parties to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law and end all attacks on or close to critical civilian infrastructure, including water systems and facilities, hospitals, health centres and schools. To ensure sustained water supply services, utility staff must also have unrestricted and safe access to water sources including the Golo water reservoir.
\nThe RSF, which has been fighting the Sudanese army for a year, intensified its offensive seeking to wrest control of the city, the military\u2019s last stronghold in the sprawling Darfur region. Two weeks of fighting last month in and around al-Fasher has killed more than 120 people.
\n\u201cThe terrible events in West Darfur, including El-Geneina, in 2023 are among our key investigative priorities,\u201d Khan said. \u201cIn addition, I am extremely concerned about allegations of widespread international crimes being committed in al-Fasher and its surrounding areas as I speak.\u201d
\nSudan\u2019s conflict began in April last year when soaring tensions between the leaders of the military and the RSF erupted into fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country.
\nThe war has killed more than 14,000 people and wounded thousands more while pushing its population to the brink of famine. The U.N. food agency warned the warring parties last month that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don\u2019t allow humanitarian aid into the region.
\nThe war also created the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis as more than 10 million people have been forced to flee their homes, including over 2 million people who crossed into neighbouring countries, the U.N. migration agency reported.
\n\u201cThe evidence my office has collected to date seems to show credible, repeated, expanding, continuous allegations of attacks against the civilian population, in particular, attacks directed against camps for internally displaced persons,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIt seems to show the widespread, prevalent use of rape and other forms of sexual violence. It seems to disclose consistently the shelling of civilian areas, the looting of properties and attacks against hospitals,\u201d he added, stressing that he was \u201cparticularly concerned by the ethnically motivated nature of these attacks against the Masalit and other communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNICEF The deteriorating security situation and the intense conflict in and around El Fasher, Darfur, have led to a significantly growing displacement of the civilian population from the area. The scarcity of clean drinking water and healthcare poses a particularly grave threat to the displaced, sick, injured, and children. \u201cBasic services, such as water and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24834,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826\/revisions\/24834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}