The threat of bloodshed, mass famine and starvation is growing as conflict in the year-long civil war intensifies in North Darfur, The 800,000 civilians living in the Sudanese city El Fasher are in extreme and immediate danger , the United Nations aid operations director, Edem Wosornu, has warned the UN security council.
Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan was greeted by African leaders as if he had already won Sudan’s civil war. His forces have secretly been armed by the United Arab Emirates, an as-yet unpublished U.N. report found.
The capture by paramilitary forces of Wad Madani, a strategic city in the country’s agricultural region, marks a watershed in the civil war that has upended life in the northeast African nation.