Aid chief says UN pressing to enter Sudan's al-Fashir after reports of atrocities


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  • Wednesday, 19 Nov 2025

FILE PHOTO: Sudanese women who fled intense fighting in al-Fashir sit in a tent made of straw and tree branches at a displacement camp, as the humanitarian situation deteriorates amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, in Al Dabba, Sudan, September 6, 2025. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -The United Nations is pushing to gain access to al-Fashir, the famine-stricken city in Darfur where witnesses have reported mass reprisals since a takeover by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces last month, U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher said.

Fletcher told Reuters it would be a huge task to provide aid to the city, which would be treated as a "crime scene" for investigations following reports of systematic executions, detentions, and rapes.

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