The brutal horrors of el-Fasher

Sudanese refugees trying to get the last appointment at a malnutrition screening session at the hospital in Oure Cassoni camp in eastern Chad, last November. Under siege for 18 months, Sudan’s refugees survived a massacre in el-Fasher, with many who managed to escape crossing the border into Chad. Sudan’s civil war has now displaced more than 12 million people. — Ivor Prickett/The New York Times

THE capture of the western Sudanese city of el-Fasher in late October marked a bloody milestone in Sudan’s nearly three-year civil war.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group battling the Sudanese army, seized control of the capital of North Darfur, claiming almost total dominion over the region.