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Senior Guardian reporter. Awards inc British Press Awards reporter of the yr, Amnesty, FPA, Orwell Prize, Oneworld.. mark.townsend@theguardian.com
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The 528-day siege of El Fasher: Guardian investigation reveals how the UAE denied life-saving aid to the starving city and why the West failed to help. theguardian.com/global-develop…
www.theguardian.com ‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe...
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Surely, time for a full parliamentary inquiry into the UK government's approach to Sudan? UK officials tried to downplay the number of dead in El Fasher; suppressed Ethiopian involvement in the war to protect the UAE. On it goes. Needs a proper inquiry. theguardian.com/global-develop…
www.theguardian.com UK prioritised ties with UAE over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told Foreign Office failed to act on warnings of genocide due to ‘pressure’ from emirates, Yale human rights investigator will tell a parliamentary select committee
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It was the biggest massacre for decades - 10,000 Sudanese killed over two days. The international community knew genocide was inevitable. Why and how did it happen? Huge thanks to @Sihanet @ikhlassahmed77 @nattyray11 @KholoodKhair theguardian.com/global-develop…
www.theguardian.com Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
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It was the biggest massacre on the planet for more than three decades. It was also one that everyone saw coming. Here is why and how it happened.... theguardian.com/global-develop…
www.theguardian.com Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
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This is the inside, shocking story of a massacre of Sudanese civilians - the most vulnerable population in the world at the time - and why the world let it happen. theguardian.com/global-develop…
www.theguardian.com ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the... As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held...