In the 12th week of fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, at least 22 people were killed and scores wounded in an army airstrike on western Omdurman, Khartoum’s state ministry said on Saturday.
On April 15, the army launched air and artillery strikes against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which quickly dominated the capital Khartoum and its sister cities of Omdurman and Bahri after clashes broke out.
Mediation efforts between the parties, led by Saudi Arabia and the United States, have been unsuccessful and the country is being dragged into a wider civil war with the involvement of internal and external actors in the conflict.
At least 1,133 people have been killed in the fighting, according to the federal health ministry, which has flared in the capital Khartoum and the Kordofan and Darfur regions, sparking ethnic violence in West Darfur state.
More than 2.9 million people have been uprooted, including nearly 700,000 who have fled into neighboring countries.
According to aid organizations working in the region, “alarming numbers” of women and girls have been raped and abducted.
The conflict has focused on Omdurman in recent days, as Darfur is RSF’s base of operations and it has brought in reinforcements.
The army said in a post on Facebook that special forces had killed 20 “rebel soldiers” and destroyed their weaponry.
Source: The Telegraph
