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Julian Bedford Barbara Plett Usher
BBC World Service BBC News, Africa correspondent
A Nigerian student is reportedly taking legal action against her school after a video of her being bullied went viral. This morning we brought you news from the beseiged Sudanese city of El Fasher, where residents told the BBC of "catastrophic" conditions.
According to local media reports, lawyers for Namitra Bwala said the prestigious Lead British International School in Abuja state had failed to provide a safe learning environment. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has now said at least 16 people there died
She's said to be seeking a public apology and $350,000 (£280,000) in damages. as a result of heavy fighting on Sunday. A further 114 were wounded, the medical charity added.
Footage of her being repeatedly slapped and insulted by fellow pupils was widely shared earlier this month. This brings the total number of deaths MSF has recorded in El Fasher over the past three days to 44.
The school has said it's investigating the incident and hopes she will return to classes. Clashes intensified
Read more: between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday.
Prestigious Nigerian school closed over bullying reports El Fasher is the last major city in the Darfur region still controlled by the Sudanese army after more than a year of brutal civil war.
At the weekend MSF
reported that a paediatric hospital it supports was forced to shut down after an air strike killed two children in the intensive
care unit and a caregiver.
MSF said it had received a total
of 290 wounded patients in another hospital since Friday.
Alongside the charity, UN officials
have been warning for weeks that an escalation of violence threatens hundreds of
thousands of civilians in El Fasher, many of them displaced from fighting
elsewhere. The US is warning of a large-scale massacre.
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