176 killed in Sudan army and Rapid Support Forces attacks

 Large-scale clashes continue in several areas, including the capital Khartoum.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Khartoum (Point News Today - 11 December 2024) At least 176 people have been killed in large-scale attacks by the army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan. According to the French broadcaster, at least 65 people were killed and hundreds were injured in shelling by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces troops in the Omdurman area of ​​​​the Sudanese capital Khartoum. The attack came a day after the army airstrike on a market in the town of Kabkabiya in North Darfur, in which more than 100 people were killed.

Khartoum Governor Ahmed Osman Hamza said a single shell hit a passenger bus, killing all on board and maiming 22 others. He blamed the attack on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) terrorist militia, which has been fighting the army since April 2023. The lawyers’ group, which documents human rights abuses during the conflict, said the airstrike occurred on the town’s weekly market day, where residents from various surrounding villages had gathered to shop, killing more than 100 people and wounding hundreds, including women and children.

Lawyers said six people were killed in a drone strike in North Kordofan state on November 26. Paramilitary shelling killed five people on Tuesday in the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, according to the civil society group Darfur General Coordination for Displaced and Refugee Camps. In July, a UN-backed report declared that the camp had become a famine after months of RSF sieges of the state capital El Fasher and the surrounding area.

The 20-month war between the army and the RSF has killed thousands and displaced 12 million, in what the United Nations has called the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. The war has also almost completely destroyed Khartoum, which neither side has been able to claim. The army controls most of the capital's twin city of Omdurman across the Nile, while the RSF holds Khartoum North (Bahri) in the east. Residents have reported constant shelling across the river, with bombs and pellets regularly hitting homes on both sides.

Witnesses said artillery hit Omdurman from several fronts. An eyewitness to the shelling of a passenger bus said, "We have not seen such intense bombardment in the past six months." Shelling was reported from the Wadi Saydna military base in northern Omdurman on RSF positions in western Omdurman and across the river in the Bahri area. The army currently controls parts of the capital as well as the north and east of the country. The RSF has seized almost all of western Darfur, the South Kordofan region and most of central Sudan.