At least 14 people were killed on Sunday, May 18 in shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group (RSF) of a famine-stricken displacement camp in the western Darfur region of the war-torn nation, according to volunteer rescuers.
The local Emergency Response Room, one of hundreds providing frontline aid nationwide since the army-RSF war started in April 2023, said the artillery attack targeted the Abu Shouk camp. According to the report, “the market and other parts inside the camp including mosques and homes close to public facilities” were struck, but first responders were unable to count all the dead due to safety concerns.
Tens of thousands of people who have been displaced by violence from the current war and earlier conflicts in Darfur are housed in Abu Shouk. At least 14 people were killed on Sunday by shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group (RSF) in a famine-stricken displacement camp in the western Darfur region of the war-torn nation, according to volunteer rescuers. The third-year conflict has divided the country of northeast Africa, with the RSF controlling almost all of Darfur and the army controlling the east, north, and center.
A days-long power outage in Khartoum, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) to the east, brought on by drone attacks on power plants has interfered with medical care at the city’s main hospitals, according to a statement released on Sunday by the medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF). The third-year conflict has divided the country of northeast Africa, with the RSF controlling almost all of Darfur and the army controlling the east, north, and center.
The governor’s media office in Khartoum said last Wednesday that three power plants in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, were the target of drone strikes attributed to the RSF, which resulted in a significant blackout throughout the state. The army-controlled northeast has seen a wave of drone attacks by the RSF in recent weeks targeting vital infrastructure, including the government seat in Port Sudan. The World Health Organization claims that the war has pushed Sudan’s already precarious healthcare system to its “breaking point”.