[Correspondence] El Fasher crisis: over 500 days under siege amid global inaction

Sudan's ongoing nationwide conflict has triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, displacing 13·9 million people,1 including more than 4 million individuals who have fled across borders. Yet El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and the historic centre of the Darfur region, has endured more than 500 days of siege by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April, 2024.2 Despite the scale of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the city, it remains largely absent from international headlines.