Cairo (Egypt), 29 October (LaPresse/AP) – Over 460 people were killed in Sudan at a hospital in El Fasher, in the western region of Darfur, which was taken over by Sudanese paramilitary forces over the weekend. This was announced by the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who explained that 460 patients and their companions were killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur province. The WHO is “appalled and deeply shocked” by this news, he said. Sudanese residents and humanitarian workers have revealed harrowing details of the atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been fighting to conquer Africa's third-largest country since 2023, after taking the army's last stronghold in Darfur after more than 500 days of siege. The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group monitoring the war, said on Tuesday that RSF fighters ‘killed in cold blood all the people they found inside the Saudi hospital, including patients, their companions and anyone else present in the wards.’ ‘The Janjaweed showed no mercy to anyone,’ said Umm Amena, a mother of four who fled the city on Monday after two days, using a Sudanese term for the RSF. Tedros called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
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