Twenty-three civilians were killed on Saturday August 3 in the besieged town of El-Facher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur region, after an artillery bombardment by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a local pro-democracy group reported.
According to a statement from The Coordination of Resistance Committees of El-Facher, “the number of martyrs among civilians, due to the intentional bombardment of the RSF, amounts to 23”. The attack also left 60 people injured.
This comes two days after a UN-backed organization claimed that the war had plunged the Zamzam camp, near El-Facher, into famine.
The war between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the RSF, led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, broke out in April 2023.
It left tens of thousands dead and caused a major humanitarian crisis, displacing over ten million people according to the UN.
Since the beginning of May, violent fighting has been taking place in El-Facher, the only capital of the five Darfur states not to be in the hands of the RSF, who have laid siege to it.
Between July 27 and 29, paramilitary bombardment of the town had already caused the deaths of 65 people, mainly women and children.