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25-03-2026
UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: An attack on a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed at least 64 people, including 13 children, according to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In a social media post, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday that multiple patients, two female nurses and one male doctor were also among those killed in the attack on Al Deain Teaching Hospital in Al Deain, the capital of East Darfur state, on Friday night.
Another 89 people, including eight health staff, were wounded, he added.
The attack damaged the hospital’s pediatric, maternity and emergency departments, rendering the facility non-functional and cutting off essential medical services in the city.
“As a result of this tragedy, the total number of fatalities linked to attacks on health facilities during Sudan’s war has now surpassed 2,000,” said Tedros, adding that over the nearly three-year conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the WHO had confirmed the killing of 2,036 people in 213 attacks on healthcare.
There was no immediate information about who was behind the attack.
The war between the army and the RSF erupted in mid-April 2023, unleashing a wave of violence that has led to one of the world’s fastest-growing man-made humanitarian crises, with tens of thousands of people killed and more than 12 million forced from their homes.
Both sides have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, while the RSF has been implicated in atrocities in Darfur that United Nations experts say bear the hallmarks of genocide.
“Enough blood has been spilled. Enough suffering has been inflicted,” Tedros said. “The time has come to de-escalate the conflict in Sudan and ensure the protection of civilians, health workers, and humanitarians
However, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has carried out “a coordinated campaign of destruction” against non-Arab communities in and around the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, the hallmarks of which point to genocide, United Nations-backed experts say.
El-Fasher was the last stronghold of the Sudanese army in the sprawling western region of Darfur until it fell to the RSF in late October. The two sides have been fighting a civil war since April 2023.
In a report released on Thursday, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said RSF fighters were responsible for atrocities after laying siege to el-Fasher for 18 months and imposed conditions “calculated to bring about the physical destruction” of non-Arab communities, in particular the Zaghawa and the Fur communities.
“The scale, coordination, and public endorsement of the operation by senior RSF leadership demonstrate that the crimes committed in and around el-Fasher were not random excesses of war,” said Mohamed Chande Othman, the chairman of the mission. “They formed part of a planned and organized operation that bears the defining characteristics of genocide.”
Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide refers to any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group: killing members of the group, causing its members serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction, imposing measures intended to prevent births in the group and forcibly transferring its children to another group. (Int’l News Desk)
