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El Fasher

American  
[el fash-er] / ɛl ˈfæʃ ər /

noun

  1. a city in W Sudan.


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In a nearby tent was Zuhoor Musa Abdul Rahman, a 30-year-old housewife who recounted with unnatural calm the horrors that spurred her to flee El Fasher, a city some 300 miles east of Obeid.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2026

Earlier this year, the militia tightened its hold on El Fasher by walling it off with a sand berm, according to satellite photos published in August by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 2025

El Fasher, the regional capital of Darfur, has been under rebel siege for the past 18 months.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

“There is no safe place in El Fasher right now,” he said.

From BBC May 23, 2024

In October 1888, he wrote to him to retire at once to El Fasher, to confine himself entirely to defensive operations, and on no account to attack the enemy.

From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by Wingate, F. R.

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