A Sudanese medical network has warned of a "full-blown humanitarian disaster" in the besieged city of El Fasher, where 23 people succumbed to severe malnutrition last month, including children and pregnant women, as the Rapid Support Forces' blockade starves out the last major army stronghold in Darfur.

The Sudan Doctors Network decried the RSF's encirclement as a "systematic crime" weaponizing hunger, with civilians denied food and aid in violation of international law.

Among the dead were five pregnant women and multiple children, though exact figures weren't specified; the group blamed the UN's "silence" for failing to intervene despite the crisis's scale, labeling it a potential "silent genocide."

The alert follows a UN Human Rights Office report last week documenting 91 civilian deaths from RSF attacks since April, including hundreds killed in assaults on displacement camps. UNICEF noted that over 10,000 children received treatment for acute malnutrition since January—double last year's tally—before the siege snapped supply lines, halting services for 6,000 more in a single week.

With 24 million Sudanese facing acute food insecurity per the World Food Programme, El Fasher's plight—trapping thousands in camps without medicine or meals—exemplifies the 18-month war's toll, which has displaced 12 million and killed at least 40,000.

The RSF's push, backed by allegations of foreign mercenaries, risks famine if unchecked, as army-RSF clashes eclipse stalled peace talks.

As the Network urges global action, the Darfur flashpoint tests fragile ceasefires, with calls for accountability across lines amid a conflict that has shattered Sudan's social fabric.