The world has known about the disaster of El Fasher for more than a year.

The city was the last redoubt of Sudan’s armed forces in the western region of Darfur, which had otherwise mostly fallen under the sway of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since the ruinous civil war between the two rival factions flared in 2023.

A baby who fled El Fasher with family receives treatment at a camp in nearby Tawila on Sunday. Credit: AP

For 18 months, the residents of El Fasher, once a regional capital of over a million people, endured a gruelling siege, punctuated by massacres and other atrocities carried out by the RSF’s fighters.

No humanitarian aid could get in, and the attackers walled off the city with a sand berm. A full-blown famine hit the communities trapped within and in near

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