Accounts are emerging of mass atrocities being committed in a major city in the Darfur region of Sudan. But in contrast with the global outrage two decades ago about genocide in Darfur, there is far less attention on the region today.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, reported Wednesday that “more than 460 patients and companions at Saudi Maternity Hospital” had been killed in the city of El Fasher. Video clips of executions and other abuses are also circulating online, and while it is not always possible to verify them, the BBC has geolocated at least one to the city. The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab has also reported “evidence of mass killings” based on satellite photos that appear to show bodies and the city’s sand stained with blood.

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