LONDON: In Sudan’s North Darfur region, by all accounts, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding as hospitals overflow, food supplies dwindle and families flee violence that has engulfed El-Fasher. Since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces stormed the city in late October, aid workers have been overwhelmed as civilians arrive on foot in nearby towns while many others remain missing.

PORT SUDAN: Families hid in trenches, bodies lay in the streets and children were killed in front of their parents as Sudanese paramilitaries advanced into the western city of…

Aid organisations fear that far fewer people than hoped have been able to leave the besieged Darfur city.