Seventy people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan.

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

The WHO chief has urged a halt on attacks against healthcare facilities in Sudan after a devastating drone strike on a hospital in North Darfur killed over 70 people. The ongoing conflict between Sudan's army and RSF is causing widespread humanitarian crises and ethnic violence in the region.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general ... Mr Ghebreyesus also said that another health facility in North Darfur’s Al Malha was attacked, leading to a pause in healthcare services.

Some 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 Organisation said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the death toll in a post on the social platform X. Officials and others in the capital of North Darfur province had cited a similar figure ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the recent attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, wh