Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces shell a besieged Darfur city, killing 24 and wounding 55, group says
The Rapid Support Forces shelled key districts in El-Fasher, killing 24 and wounding 55 amid a siege trapping 260,000 civilians, UNICEF reported.
- Sudan plunged into civil war in April 2023 when tension between the military and the Rapid Support Forces erupted into open fighting.
- The conflict has killed over 40,000 people, displaced over 14 million, and caused famine in parts of the country, marked by atrocities like killings and rape.
- The RSF shelled densely populated areas of el-Fasher city in North Darfur province, killing 24 and wounding 55, compounding the suffering of 260,000 civilians trapped there, including 130,000 children facing severe malnutrition.
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Sudan: 24 killed in RSF shelling of besieged city of El-Fasher
24 people were killed and 55 others, including five women, were injured on Wednesday as a result of artillery shelling of the city of El Fasher in North Darfur by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the Sudan Doctors’ Network has said. In a statement on X, the network said that the shelling targeted the central market area and the Awlad Al-Reef neighbourhood of El-Fasher. The Sudan Doctors’ Network strongly condemned the massacre committed by the RS…
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces shell a besieged Darfur city, killing 24
CAIRO: A paramilitary group fighting against Sudan’s military shelled a besieged city in the western region of Darfur, killing at least 24 people, a medical group said Thursday. The Rapid Support Forces shelled the densely populated areas of the central market and Awlad al-Reef neighborhood in el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province, according to the Sudan

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces shell a besieged Darfur city, killing 24 and wounding 55, group says
A Sudanese medical group says a paramilitary group fighting against Sudan's military has shelled a city in Darfur, killing at least 24 people.
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