Sixteen civilians were killed and 18 injured on Monday in a paramilitary bombing of a camp for displaced people affected by famine in Sudan's Darfur region, a humanitarian aid group said today.
The attack took place in the capital of North Darfur, El-Facher, which has been under siege for more than six months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been at war with the regular army since April 2023.
The RSF used artillery to hit a market in the camp for displaced people, a group of volunteer aid workers said.
By December, according to UN agencies, based on a report from the Food Security Classification System, famine had set in in three displacement camps in North Darfur, also affecting displaced residents and communities in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan.
Famine had already been declared in Zamzam, another displacement camp in El-Facher, a city of two million people besieged by the RSF since May, which has seen some of the worst fighting of the war as the army struggles to hold on to its last stronghold in the vast Darfur region.
Almost all of Darfur is in the hands of the RSF, which has also taken control of large areas of the southern Kordofan region.
The regular army continues to control the north and east of the country. The Khartoum region is divided between the two camps.
The war in Sudan has cost tens of thousands of lives and displaced more than 12 million people, creating the world’s worst displacement crisis, according to the United Nations.
Nearly 25 million people, around half of Sudan’s population, are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity by May.
The army and RSF have been accused of indiscriminate shelling of civilians and medical facilities, as well as deliberate attacks on residential areas.
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