Aid workers must also deal with the wave of cholera outbreaks in the war-torn Sudan.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was "shocked and shocked" by repeated shelling attacks by the Rapid Support Force (RSF) at its site in southwestern Sudan, as paramilitary groups launched a brutal civil war, now in their third year of the Sudanese army.
"Humanitarian personnel, assets, operations and supplies should never be targeted. This must be stopped," the UN agency said on Thursday on Thursday.
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El-Fasher is the last major city held by the Sudanese army in the Darfur region. It has witnessed fierce battles between the Army and the RSF since May 2024, despite international warnings that the risk of violence in the city is the main humanitarian hub of the five Darfur states.
For more than a year, the RSF has tried to control El-Fasher, 800 kilometers (500 miles) southwest of the capital, from the Army's capital Khartoum, to carry out regular attacks on the city and bring two major famine camps to its outer skin.
Khartoum State University's health ministry added to the local disaster Thursday, adding humanitarian dilemma, with 1,177 and 45 deaths the day before, reporting 942 new cholera infections and 25 deaths the day before.
The scale of cholera outbreaks is deteriorating due to the almost complete collapse of health services, with about 90% of critical theater hospitals no longer operating, aid workers said.
Since August 2024, Sudan has reported more than 65,000 cholera cases, with 12 of its 18 states having at least 1,700 deaths. Khartoum alone, there were 7,700 and 185 deaths, including more than 1,000 infections among children under five, as it fought more than two years between the Army and the RSF.
Sudan’s Army-supporting government at Khartoum State University announced earlier this month that all relief plans in the state must be registered with the Humanitarian Assistance Commission (HAC), the government agency responsible for overseeing the humanitarian action in Sudan.
Aid workers and activists fear that the regulations will lead to a blow to local relief volunteers, exacerbating the catastrophic hunger crisis that affects 25 million people nationwide.
According to AIDS groups, local relief volunteers and experts, former leader Omar al-Bashir gave the HAC expanded power in 2006 to register, monitor and criticize criticism and defeated local and western aid groups in 2006.
The Army-backed government announced last week that it had expelled RSF fighters from its last base at Khartoum State University, two months after recapturing the capital from paramilitary personnel.
Nevertheless, the city has been destroyed by the fact that health and sanitation infrastructure is almost ineffective.
Since April 2023, the RSF has been fighting the SAF to control Sudan. The Civil War killed more than 20,000 people, uprooted 15 million, and created what the United Nations considers the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.