Description: The Sudanese army has conducted airstrikes on a hospital located in the besieged city of El Fasher in the Darfur province, killing at least 12 people and further depleted the medical capabilities in the country torn by the civil war conflict. Separate report, published by the Humanitarian Research Lab of the Yale School of Public Health, has demonstrated that the RSF has started the complete encirclement of El Fasher by constructing earthen walls, effectively disabling evacuations by foot or vehicles with the perimeter of the city totally closed off for humanitarian aid. The conflict has also inflicted severe damages on the country’s oil exports, especially to neighboring South Sudan which is also facing internal instability as President Salva Kiir intensifies his persecution of political and military opponents. Sudan has ceased exporting oil due to security concerns and damaged infrastructure as both the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have exchanged attacks on critical infrastructure in several regions. The situation was additionally aggravated by a deadly landslide in the village of Tarasin in Central Darfur where more than a thousand people died as the entire village was wiped out by the landslide following a week of heavy rainfall.
Impact: The warring parties in the Sudanese civil war have continued to indiscriminately target civilian population, medical facilities and infrastructure in territories where the other side holds control. El Fasher has been under constant siege by the RSF and is considered to be one of the last stronghold of the SAF in the South Darfur province. The earthen encirclement currently being built by the RSF would further isolate the city through cutting ground access which might be a prelude for a large – scale combined ground and aerial offensive by the RSF. Sudan’s cessation of oil exports to South Sudan also further destabilizes the region, as neighboring South Sudan’s political and military crisis could further deteriorate if crucial energy resources such as oil are starting to devaluate. The landslide which claimed the lives of more than a thousand people emphasizes the country’s non existing emergency service or critical infrastructure and adds to the severe humanitarian situation on the ground. Sudan is headed towards substantial protraction of the humanitarian and security crises, with the significantly elevated possibility of the conflict inflicting regional instability and broader security ramifications.