ALBAWABA - Sudanese politician Suliman Arcua Minnawi, commonly known as Minni Minnawi, announced the killing of 70 people in a drone attack on Alfashir

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the death toll in a post on the social platform X. Officials and others in the capital of North Darfur province had cited a similar figure ...

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functioning hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher, Sudan, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Sunday.

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, center, in El Fasher, Sudan on Jan 25. (AP)

Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70, says WHO chief - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it was ‘the only functional hospital in El Fasher’

The WHO chief has urged a halt on attacks against healthcare facilities in Sudan after a devastating drone strike on a hospital in North Darfur killed over 70 people. The ongoing conflict between Sudan's army and RSF is causing widespread humanitarian crises and ethnic violence in the region.

Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organisation said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

Following the attack on Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries, UNICEF on Tuesday said that at least one girl and three boys were reportedly killed and three boys injured.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called on January 26 for an immediate end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone strike on a hospital in the North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and injured dozens.

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the recent attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, which resulted in 70 deaths and 19 injuries.

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