UN reports fighting in Sudan’s Darfur involving ‘heavy weaponry’

A major city in Sudan's western region of Darfur has been rocked by fighting involving "heavy  weaponry", a senior UN official said Saturday. Violence erupted in populated areas of El-Fasher, putting about 800,000 people at risk, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said in a statement. Wounded civilians were being