Sudan, Nov. 12 -- As starved people continue trying to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams are providing urgent care to those who have reached the town of Tawila. There, MSF staff are witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition-the most severe situation amid the malnutrition crisis that has gripped Sudan since the start of the war.

For months, MSF teams in Tawila have been treating patients with malnutrition who fled El Fasher, but malnutrition rates are now staggering. Among children under the age of 5 who reached Tawila between October 27-when RSF seized control of El Fasher-and November 3, over ...