Sudan's war is causing untold misery and threatening to spill over into the neighbourhood. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025, Crisis Group explores how the EU and its member states can assist urgently needed efforts at mediation and relief.

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

An airstrike on the last functional hospital in Sudan's El Fasher killed around 70 people, escalating the country's ongoing civil war.

The Sudanese army continued its rapid advance in central and southern Khartoum Bahri on Wednesday, four days after regaining control of the Khartoum oil refinery north of the city and breaking the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege of the Signal Corps headquarters in the far south.

Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sund

A drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 70 people and injured dozens.

There are legitimate fears that the thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including convicted murderers and terrorist leaders, to be freed in exchange for the hostages could replenish Hamas' ranks.

Local officials have attributed the drone attack that killed 70 people to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group

Sudan has been engulfed in a brutal war between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Youssef is scheduled to visit Iran within the next month to bolster bilateral cooperation.

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, center, in El Fasher, Sudan on Jan 25. (AP)

The attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital came as the group has seen apparent battlefield losses to the Sudanese military and allied forces under the command of army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan.