The United Nations secretary-general has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan’s Darfur region after a deadly drone attack on Friday killed more than 70 worshippers in el-Fasher, expressing “grave” alarm about the “rapidly deteriorating situation”.“The fighting must stop now,” Antonio Guterres said in a statement issued by his spokesperson on Saturday, urging the warring parties to engage in dialogue and provide humanitarian corridors, with the brutal civil war wracking the nation in its third year.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The parties must return to the negotiating table and find a sustainable solution to the conflict,” he added.El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur region, remains the government-backed Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its allies’ last major stronghold across Darfur. It has been under siege for more than a year by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which launched a renewed offensive to capture the city in recent weeks.Humanitarian organisations have raised alarm about growing hunger in the city as hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped without access to food, medicine and other essentials.The UN has said the humanitarian situation in Sudan, where thousands have been killed, and millions displaced across the country, is the worst in the world. SAF has been fighting the RSF since 2023 in a war that has devastated the country.Many who have left the city have reported being attacked by the RSF while mak …
