18 killed, over 100 injured in RSF attack on Sudan’s El Fasher
Eighteen people have died, and more than 100 have been injured after artillery fire on the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur region.
The Sudan Doctors Network attributed the attack to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have surrounded the city in the war-torn country.
The information could not be independently verified.
El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, is the last city in the region still under government control.
Since May 2024, it has been under siege by the RSF, which has been accused of atrocities, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes.
According to UN estimates, there are around 300,000 people living under desperate conditions in El Fasher, which has been cut off for more than 16 months.
The RSF conducts repeated attacks on refugee camps on the city’s outskirts.
Sudan’s de facto ruler, Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, has been engaged in a power struggle with RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo since April 2023.
The UN considers the situation the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, with more than 12 million people displaced and more than 26 million facing starvation.
(dpa/NAN)
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