At least 22 civilians have been killed in an airstrike by the Sudanese army near the capital Khartoum. Countless people were injured in the attack in the city of Omdurman, which borders Khartoum, the Khartoum state health ministry said on Saturday.
In the country on the Horn of Africa, the army led by President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been battling the RSF paramilitary militia of former deputy ruler Mohammed Hamdan Daglo since mid-April, after a power struggle between the two coup generals escalated openly.
attacks on residential areas
In Khartoum and the surrounding area, there are repeated attacks on residential areas and fighting over strategic targets. For their part, RSF fighters use squatted civilian homes for cover. The RSF accused the military of killing at least 31 people on Saturday.
According to data from the conflict monitoring organization ACLED, at least 3,300 people have been killed since the outbreak of fighting in Sudan. The conflict has now displaced 2.9 million people in Sudan, with more than 600,000 having fled to neighboring countries, according to the latest figures from the UN Refugee Agency.
In addition to Khartoum, the Darfur region in the west of the country, which has been ravaged by ethnic conflict for decades, is also affected by fierce fighting and escalating communal violence.
(dsc/sda/dpa)
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