At least 23 people were killed and over 40 injured in airstrikes by the Sudanese army targeting a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) camp in southern Khartoum on Saturday. The strikes hit the central market and a nearby residential area, leaving traders, shoppers, and residents among the casualties.
The RSF and the military have been locked in an 18-month civil war that has claimed up to 150,000 lives and displaced one-fifth of Sudan’s population, according to the UN. Hospitals are overwhelmed by the influx of wounded, reports the Emergency Response Rooms, a Nobel Prize-nominated rescue network.
Fighting has intensified since Friday, with the army escalating airstrikes and advancing from Omdurman, where fresh clashes erupted. The Sudanese government this week accused the UAE of arming the RSF and urged the UN to act—allegations the UAE denies.
Both sides have been accused of atrocities during the conflict, which the UN warns has sparked the world’s fastest-growing displacement crisis and plunged Sudan into the worst hunger crisis globally.
