The UN agency Unicef reported on Wednesday that the water system at an emergency hospital in the Darfur region has been completely without water since the hospital's water reservoir was destroyed in artillery fire. Around 1,000 seriously ill patients are being cared for at the hospital.
The attack was carried out in al-Fashir, with approximately two million inhabitants, and where fierce battles between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have raged. The hospital, one of the few functioning in the region, is financed by Saudi Arabia.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war and over twelve million people have been forced to flee, in what the UN describes as the world's largest refugee crisis.
Both the army and RSF have been accused of indiscriminately bombing civilians and healthcare facilities, deliberately attacking residential areas and using mass starvation as a weapon of war.
