One killed in attack on MSF ambulance in Sudan's Darfur: charity

Port Sudan, Sudan: French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Sunday said a passenger was killed in what it described as a despicable at...

Port Sudan, Sudan: French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Sunday said a passenger was killed in what it described as a "despicable attack" on one of its ambulances in Sudan's Darfur region.

El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, has for months been the site of fierce fighting between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on one side and the Sudanese army and allied armed groups on the other.

It is the only major city in Sudan's vast western region of Darfur that the RSF has not managed to capture.

MSF is one of the few international organisations still present in the city, where nearly all medical facilities have been forced shut amid repeated attacks on healthcare.

On Friday, an ambulance was carrying a female patient in labour who required an emergency surgical procedure from the Zamzam displacement camp to the city's Saudi Hospital, MSF said.