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At least 134 people have died at a single hospital in Darfur city of El-Fasher in western Sudan, Doctors without Borders said on Sunday, including one MSF team member.
War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
El-Fasher in North Darfur is the only State capital in the vast western region not under RSF control, and is a key humanitarian hub for a region on the brink of famine.
El-Fasher
Al-Fashir or El Fasher is the capital city of North Darfur, Sudan.
Darfur
Darfur is a region of western Sudan.
Darfur was an independent sultanate for several hundred years until 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.
The region was later invaded and incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916
Because of the War in Darfur between Sudanese government forces and the indigenous population, the region has been in a state of humanitarian emergency and genocide since 2003
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