Thousands of children are facing an imminent risk of death as malnutrition rates skyrocket in the besieged city of al-Fashir in Sudan’s Darfur region, four United Nations agencies said on Thursday.

More than a quarter of a million civilians, about half of them children, have been cut off from food and healthcare in the city during a 16-month-old standoff, the agencies said.

“Health facilities have collapsed, and thousands of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition are now without treatment,” the agencies said.

Famine-stricken al-Fashir is the Sudanese army’s last holdout in the vast, western region as it battles the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in a civil war that began in April 2023.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), refugee agency UNHCR, children’s or

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