23 h. ago Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community actsIt unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Horror as ‘hundreds’ of people rounded up and shot as city falls to paramilitaries in Sudan

Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have captured the city of al-Fashir

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64 h. ago Horror as ‘hundreds’ of people round up and shot as city falls to paramilitaries in Sudan

Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have captured the city of al-Fashir

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4 d. ago At least 460 people killed in El Fasher’s last functioning hospital in Sudan as UN warns of ‘blood on hands’ of international community

More than 2,000 people are reported to have been killed in two days

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4 d. ago At least 460 people killed in maternity hospital massacre in Sudan

More than 2,000 people are reported to have been killed in two days by paramilitaries

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4 d. ago Maternity hospital horror as 460 killed in 'hell on Earth' Sudan shooting massacre

Paramilitary fighters went door-to-door shooting victims in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher and the death tally has reached over 1,500 people as 460 died at a hospital.

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4 d. ago Sudan maternity hospital horror as 460 killed in 'hell on Earth' shooting massacre

Paramilitary fighters have killed more than 1,500 people in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher where they went door-to-door shooting victims and 460 died at a hospital

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4 d. ago Attack on maternity hospital must be ‘turning point’ in Sudan conflict – Dodds

The UK has called an emergency UN Security Council session on Sudan for later on Thursday.

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4 d. ago Maternity hospital massacre leaves 460 dead: Fresh horror in Sudan as patients and staff are butchered, after 2,000 civilians were executed in two days

The WHO said the hospital in El Fasher, the city's last remaining hospital, was on Sunday 'attacked for the fourth time in a month, killing one nurse and injuring three other health workers'.

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5 d. ago What it's like giving birth in a war zone: Ukrainian mothers tell of sheltering underground, going into labour as explosions ring out and hiding their babies from Russian soldiers

Anastasiia Serha is one of the Ukrainian women who gave birth during the siege of Kherson. She has told the Daily Mail of how it unfolded.

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5 d. ago Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts

Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network, after the paramilitary group claimed control of the city on Sunday.The WHO secretary general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was “appalled and deeply shocked” at reports that more than 460 people had been killed at the Saudi maternity hospital, without assigning blame, in a post on X. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Relatives of Rhiannon Whyte vow to stay strong as a tribute to her memory

The hotel worker’s family say they have endured ‘hell on earth’ and that no sentence handed to her killer will ever equate to their loss.

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting launches independent inquiry into maternity failures by Leeds hospitals

Families call for Donna Ockenden to head up new independent inquiry into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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2 w. ago Families welcome independent inquiry into maternity services at NHS Trust

Bereaved families have welcomed the independent inquiry into maternity services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS.

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3 w. ago Hospital bosses ridiculed for their 'woke hogwash' after claiming local maternity unit was for 'women and people who are pregnant'

Critics including the local MP demanded James Paget Hospital in Norfolk remove the 'unscientific nonsense'. One said: 'Who trusts a hospital that doesn't know that only women get pregnant?'

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