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More people die in attacks in North Darfur and Greater Khartoum as fighting between the army and the RSF becomes bloodier.
Dozens of people have been killed in two days in Sudan as fighting between the army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifies, according to officials, activists and human rights groups.
The 20-month conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people, has become increasingly bloody, with the army stepping up airstrikes on areas under RSF control and paramilitary forces organizing raids and carrying out intense artillery attacks.
On Monday, an airstrike on a busy market in the town of Kabkabiya, a town about 180 kilometers (110 miles) west of El-Fasher, capital of North Darfur, currently surrounded by the RSF, killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds, including women. and children, according to the rights group Emergency Lawyers.
The army denied all responsibility for the attack, insisting it had the right to attack any location used by the RSF for military purposes, according to the Reuters news agency. RSF had no immediate comment.
On Tuesday, the RSF directed heavy artillery fire at an army-controlled sector of Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum that is part of Sudan’s capital, according to residents. State-aligned Khartoum Governor Ahmed Othman Hamza reported that at least 65 people had been killed and hundreds injured.
According to Hamza, who called the attack a “massacre” and attributed it to “the terrorist militia,” a projectile hit a passenger bus and “killed everyone on board and turned 22 people into body parts.”
A medical source at Omdurman’s Al-Nao hospital, one of the last facilities receiving patients in the area, told the AFP news agency that the hospital received 15 of those killed in the bus attack, and that seven others died. later at the hospital.
The hospital also “received 45 wounded from different areas” of Omdurman, added the source, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals.
On Tuesday, the RSF bombed the famine-stricken Zamzam displaced persons camp in North Darfur, killing five people, according to the civil society group General Coordination of Camps for Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur.
Emergency Lawyers also reported that six people died in North Kordofan state when a drone that had crashed on November 26 exploded.
power struggle
Sudan’s war broke out in April 2023 amid a power struggle between the army and the RSF ahead of a planned transition to civilian government.
Both sides have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, including attacks on civilians, a United Nations fact-finding mission said in September.
The violence has killed tens of thousands, forced 11 million people from their homes and unleashed the world’s largest hunger crisis, according to the UN.
On Tuesday, the UN warned that almost 10,000 people a day are fleeing across the border into South Sudan, and daily arrivals have tripled in recent weeks.
The health system, already fragile before the war, has been severely paralyzed and up to 80 percent of health facilities in affected areas are closed or barely operational, the UN says.
