Khartoum: At least 33 people have been killed in Sudan in attacks blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been at war with the army since April 2023, first responders reported. The recent violence has exacerbated the ongoing conflict between the RSF and the army, with devastating impacts on civilian populations and infrastructure.
According to Nam News Network, the attacks followed six consecutive days of RSF drone strikes targeting the army-led government’s wartime capital, Port Sudan. These strikes have damaged crucial infrastructure, including the power grid, further destabilizing the region. On Friday evening, at least 14 members of the same family were killed in an airstrike on a displacement camp in Darfur, a vast western region of Sudan. The rescue group attributed the attack to the RSF.
Darfur is home to tens of thousands of people who have fled the violence of successive conflicts, including the ongoing civil unrest that has torn Africa’s third-largest country apart since
2023. The RSF has repeatedly shelled the camp in recent weeks, adding to the plight of the displaced residents.
Abu Shouk, located near the Zamzam camp, was seized by the RSF in April following a devastating offensive that nearly emptied it. The United Nations has reported that nearly one million people had been sheltering at the site prior to these attacks.
On Saturday, an RSF strike targeted a prison in the army-controlled southern city of El-Obeid, resulting in the deaths of at least 19 people and injuring 45 others, according to a medical source. The source indicated that the jail, located in the North Kordofan state capital, was hit by an RSF drone.
The ongoing war, which started as a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has spiraled into what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The conflict has effectively divided the country, with the army controlling the north, east, and center, while t
he RSF and its allies dominate nearly all of Darfur in the west and parts of the south.