El Fasher

[el fash-er]

noun

1. a city in W Sudan.

Example Sentences

In the outskirts of El Fasher, rebels hurl racial insults at fleeing women and children.

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Awil Mohamad, 60-years-old, grabbed her two small grandchildren and fled her home in El Fasher embarking on a 40-mile journey to the town of Tawila, to escape the shelling by paramilitary fighters last week.

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Mohamad has joined half a million other people—largely Black Sudanese—uprooted from El Fasher and struggling to survive in a settlement where food and drinking water are scarce.

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El Fasher is a pivotal theater in the war, controlling access to the broader Darfur region.

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When the RSF was ejected out of Khartoum in March, its fighters turned their focus on the last remaining city of El Fasher which was still under the control of the army.

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