The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations agency, reported that 1,000 families have fled El Fasher, noting that field assessment teams from the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) estimated that approximately 1,050 families were displaced from the city on August 29 due to rising insecurity.
The organization stated that the neighborhoods of Al-Wadi, Awlad Al-Reef, and Makarka were affected by ongoing clashes in the city, forcing most families living there to flee to other areas within the El Fasher locality.
El Fasher, which hosts hundreds of thousands of displaced people from other parts of Darfur, has witnessed continuous attacks and clashes between the warring parties for the third consecutive week. Heavy artillery shelling on residential areas and markets has created an extremely dire humanitarian situation under siege conditions, with no access to food or medical supplies and blocked aid routes.
El Fasher remains the last state capital in the Darfur region still under army control, even as it faces repeated artillery and air attacks since the outbreak of the war on April 15, 2023.
