North Darfur State (Arabic: ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Šamāl Dārfūr; Shamal Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan. It is one of the five states composing the Darfur region. It has an area of 296,420 km 2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,304,950 in 2018. Al-Fashir is the capital of the state.

2 days ago · At least one girl and three boys were killed, and three boys injured, during an attack on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, North Darfur, on Friday. The children were among the patients being treated in the hospital's emergency ward for injuries from previous bombings in the area, said the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF .

4 days ago · At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state late Friday, according to local officials and the ...

3 days ago · The gravity of the situation in the wider region was underscored by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who condemned a 24 January attack on the Saudi Teaching Hospital in El Fasher, North Darfur. At least 70 patients and their relatives were reportedly killed, and dozens more injured.

Dec 20, 2024 · United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk is calling for an end to the siege of El Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur state, which has resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, and...

NORTH DARFUR Demography The population of North Darfur state is 2,827,155 people (1,392,545 women and 1,434,610 men)1. There are 1.3 million children (aged 0 -18) in North Darfur, and 631,696 youth (aged 18-24). The vast majority of the population has significant humanitarian and development needs. The major ethnic groups are the Berti, Fur,

Sep 18, 2024 · A new wave of large-scale fighting between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces broke out in the city of El Fasher on 12 September, a senior UN official told the Security Council...

Dec 14, 2023 · Escalating violence across the Darfur region in Sudan has sparked fears that the atrocities committed two decades ago could be repeated. A boy walks in the Al Salaam camp for displaced people in...

Apr 26, 2024 · The United Nations has sounded the alarm about a possible imminent attack on el-Fasher, in Sudan’s North Darfur, as the global body seeks to reduce tensions in the last major city in the...

Aug 1, 2024 · ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 1 August 2024 – After more than 15 months of war in Sudan, a catastrophic combination of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints has resulted in famine in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.