Mirian Gom 
ABUJA, Nigeria – A drone strike by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) kills eight people, including mothers and newborns, inside a maternity ward in El-Fasher, North Darfur.
The Tuesday attack, confirmed by hospital staff, also injures seven and damages vital medical equipment.
“It’s devastating — one of our last working hospitals now lies in ruins,” said a health worker who requested anonymity.
The strike marks another assault on Sudan’s collapsing healthcare system since war erupted in April 2023 between the RSF and the national army. El-Fasher Hospital, one of the last functioning facilities in the besieged city, has become the epicenter of suffering.
The United Nations warns El-Fasher faces “mass starvation” as aid struggles to reach civilians trapped amid the fighting. The RSF has besieged the city since May 2024, leaving it the last major Darfur city outside its control.
Tens of thousands have died, and millions are displaced in what the UN describes as the world’s largest humanitarian and hunger crisis.
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