Hommam Al Nassim 
El Fasher Hospital in Darfur has received dozens of dead and hundreds injured as a result of renewed fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces since the tenth of May.
The charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said the hospital in El Fasher had received 707 injured people so far, while 85 of them had died.
El Fasher, the main aid hub in Darfur, has been witnessing heavy fighting this month despite UN calls to avoid fighting.
El Fasher is the only one of the capitals of the five Darfur states not controlled by the RSF.
Fighting has escalated in recent hours, with the Sudanese army launching air strikes on several locations around the main oil refinery in the al-Jili area north of Khartoum.
There is speculation that the area on the main road leading to the city of Shendi in River Nile state may be bombed after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of most of the capital’s military districts.
Many residents are confined to their homes because of the fighting, preventing them from transporting their wounded to hospitals.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) explains that the injured in the southern hospital are receiving “only one wound”, putting the facility under severe pressure, noting that the war has caused the closure of more than 70 per cent of the country’s medical facilities, adding to the pressure on the remainder.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced some nine million.
The UN announced that by the end of April, more than half a million new IDPs had been displaced to North Darfur state alone over the past year.
The head of Médecins Sans Frontières’s emergency response in Sudan, Claire Nicollet, is urging the warring parties to provide a “safe passage” to enable Médecins Sans Frontières to replenish stocks of the southern hospital, where they have only ten days of supplies.
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