U.N. demands end to El Fashir siege in Sudan’s Darfur region– www.washingtonpost.com

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SHENDI, Sudan — The United Nations Security Council passed a near-unanimous resolution demanding the end of a siege of western Sudan’s El Fashir city to avert a humanitarian crisis in the war-torn nation.

The British-sponsored resolution, which passed with 14 nations in support and Russia abstaining, calls for a cease-fire as well as “rapid, safe, unhindered and sustained passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need.”

For more than a year, Sudan has been engulfed in a civil war between the military dictatorship and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful militia that has seized huge swaths of the country.

El Fashir, in the vast, arid Darfur region of the country, is the final regional capital still in government hands, and it has been under siege for the past month. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have sheltered there, fleeing RSF advances elsewhere in the country.

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