El Fasher Siege Traps hundreds of thousands in the midst of the Sudan Civil War crisis

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In comments to Fox News Digital, the position of the State Department on the belligerent parties of Sudan has hardened, while a 500 -day seat of the city of Darfour d’El Fasher trapped hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Sudan suffers from the largest trip in the world: between 13 million and 15 million people were torn from their house, and around 150,000 people have been killed since the rebels rapid support forces (RSF) and the Sudanese armed forces of the Sudanese government began to fight in April 2023. The roots of the 2019 civil war civil war followed the 2019 worked 2019.
“The RSF, during the siege of El Fasher and the surrounding area, committed a myriad of crimes against humanity, in particular murder, torture, slavery, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and persecution for ethnic, sex and political grounds”, an independent mission of research of international facts for the Sudan of UN last Friday.
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Sudanese residents come together to receive free meals in Al Fasher, a city besieged by the Sudan paramilitary support forces (RSF) for more than a year, in the Darfur region, August 11, 2025. RSF attacked a refugee camp struck by the famine in the state of Darfur du Nord on August 11, 2025, killing at least 40 civilians and wounding 19 Others said rescuers. Al-Fasher is the last city in the western region of Darfur still owned by the Sudanese army, at war with the paramilitary group since April 2023. (STR / AFP via Getty image)
The report agreed with other stories that the RSF is trying to hunger from the residents of El Fasher to death, declaring: “The RSF and its allies used famine as a method of war.”
The aid is prevented from going to El Fasher, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, Stéphane Dujarric, said that the supplies “” supplies are pre-positioned nearby, but the United Nations efforts and its partners to move to El Fasher continue to be hampered.
“The situation in El Fasher remains disastrous,” Fox News Digital Mariam Wahba told Fox News, research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The RSF has effectively surrounded the city, cutting the main supply routes and subjecting civilians to blind bombing. Territories and economic assets, in particular lucrative gold mines.”
President Donald Trump’s special advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, met the Sudan army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Switzerland last month. According to the tone of state Department answers to Fox News Digital Questions on Sudan this week, there seems to be little progress on the path of peace.
A spokesperson said: “Since the April 2023 conflict epidemic in Sudan, we have witnessed a significant decline in the overall respect of Sudan for fundamental freedoms, including religious freedom.

Patients infected with cholera receive treatment in the cholera isolation center in the western Sudan refugee camps, in the city of Tawila, Darfur, August 12, 2025. The cholera tears the Tawila camps in Darfour, where hundreds of thousands of people have been left with nothing other than the water they can boil. times as a disinfectant and medication. (AFP via Getty Images)
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“In order to protect American interests, to include the protection of religious freedom in Sudan, American efforts seek to limit negative Islamist influence in the Government of Sudan and to reduce the regional activities of Iran which contributed to regional destabilization, conflicts and civil suffering.”
Wahba is also concerned about the activities of “bad actors” foreign to Sudan. “Iran has provided drones to SAF and technical support.
Wahba continued: “Russia played the two sides of the conflict. It continued a naval base on the Sudan coast on the Red Sea, which would give Moscow direct access to critical shipping routes, while enjoying the smuggling of gold via networks linked to the RSF.”

TOPSHOT-The fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebellious group active in the state of Darfur of Sudan which supports the head of the army Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, attend a graduate ceremony in the south-east of the state of Gedaref on March 28, 2024. The Sudan war has already killed thousands of people. The warlord, the chief of the army Al-Burhan against his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemeti, who commands the paramilitary support forces (RSF). (Photo by – / AFP via Getty Images) (Photo by – / AFP via Getty Images)
“Regional powers also advance their own interests. Egypt publicly supported the SAF, aligning with the sovereign of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Saudi Arabia is aligned with Egypt to support Al-Burhan. The United Arab Emirates, on the other hand, have provided significant support on the RSF, as hem, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – Widel The Guardian of Gold Exports from Sudan and the way to his plans for port development along the Coast of the Red Sea. “”
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Wahba concluded: “Burhan’s desire to get involved with Washington is a potential opening.