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Over 40 people, including children, killed in Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief
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Over 40 people, including children, killed in Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief

 Over 40 people, including children and health care workers, were killed in an attack on a hospital in Sudan at the weekend, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Saturday's attack on the Al Mujlad Hospital took place in West Kordofan, near the front line between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting each other since the conflict broke out in April 2023. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for attacks on health infrastructure to stop, without saying who was responsible. The WHO Sudan office said that six children and five medics were killed in the attack, reporting extensive damage to the facility. Emergency Lawyers, a human rights group, accused an army drone of striking the hospital on Satur...
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Chad condemns Sudan’s airport threat as ‘declaration of war’ 
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Chad condemns Sudan’s airport threat as ‘declaration of war’ 

Thousands of Sudanese people have fled to neighbouring Chad for refuge Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general's threat to target its airports, calling it a "declaration of war." Its foreign ministry said it would respond according to international law if a "square metre of Chadian territory is threatened".  The warning follows comments from Lt-Gen Yasir al-Atta, the deputy commander of Sudan's army, who said the UAE was using Chad's airports to deliver weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Sudanese army has repeatedly accused the UAE of supporting its rival, the RSF, throughout the brutal two-year civil war, which has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.  UN experts have described accusations of the UAE smuggling weapons to the...
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Medics under siege: ‘We took this photo, fearing it would be our last’
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Medics under siege: ‘We took this photo, fearing it would be our last’

Dr Mustafa Ali Abdulrahman Ibo and his colleagues bravely perform surgery under increasing bombardment in the last remaining hospital in el-Fasher, a city that has been under siege for the last nine months in Sudan's western Darfur region. Over the last month the hospital has recorded 28 deaths and more than 50 injuries among its staff and patients because of intense shelling. This is the highest number of casualties recorded in a month since the siege began. "Recent continuous attacks targeting Saudi Hospital have intensified dramatically, it has become part of our daily lives," Dr Ibo, a Darfuri who has lived in el-Fasher since 2011, told the BBC. He said the most frightening day had been when a team of medics were performing an emergency caesarean as the shelling began - a near...
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Sudan air strike causes ‘horrific massacre’ in a Darfur market
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Sudan air strike causes ‘horrific massacre’ in a Darfur market

The Sudanese military has fighter jets while the RSF has been accused of using drones Sudan's military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed. The Emergency Lawyers rights group described the bombing in Kabkabiya town on Monday, the weekly market day, as a "horrific massacre". Clashes have intensified in different parts of Sudan in recent weeks between the army and its former ally, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Both sides deny carrying out war crimes during their 19-month power struggle that has caused the world's biggest humanitarian crisis and forced more than 11 million people from their homes According to Emergency Lawyers, the air strike happened ...
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