PORT SUDAN: According to activists, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a famine-stricken camp in the country’s North Darfur area on Friday, killing 25 civilians, including women and children.
The local resistance committee, a volunteer assistance organization in El-Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, said the attack, which included shelling and heavy gunfire, “targeted Zamzam displacement camp from both the southern and eastern directions.
During the nearly two years of war between the RSF and Sudan’s army, Zamzam and other heavily populated camps for the displaced around El-Fasher have suffered greatly. Following their loss of control of the capital Khartoum last month, the paramilitaries have intensified their efforts to gain control of Darfur, Sudan’s expansive western province.
Witnesses reported seeing RSF combat vehicles sneaking into the camp while being heavily shot at. Although there was counterfire in response to the attack, the local resistance committee stated that because of interrupted communications and Internet outages, it was impossible to determine the entire extent of the damage.
Last year, a UN-backed assessment declared famine in Zamzam, the first area of Sudan to do so. Since a power struggle between opposing generals turned into a full-fledged war on April 15, 2023, the battle in Sudan has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people and the displacement of over 12 million.
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