MSF suspend operations in key Sudanese hospital in Khartoum

The medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on January 10th that it has to suspend its work at one of the last remaining hospitals in southern Khartoum following ongoing attacks, removing a key means of survival for people in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Asharq Al-Awsat via Reuters reports. 

Since April 2023, Sudan has been effected by war, prompted by a power struggle between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ahead of a planned conversion to civilian rule, setting off the biggest displacement and hunger crisis on a global scale.

Located in territory controlled by the RSF, the hospital helped to treat the victims of the repeated airstrikes by Sudanese armed forces, as well as hundreds of women suffering with malnutrition as well as children in an area where two neighbourhoods have been deemed in danger of famine.

Asharq Al-Awsat via Reuters