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At least 15 killed, 40 injured in attacks in western Sudan

At least 15 people were killed and 40 were injured in an attack launched on Sunday by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group in the village of Al Rahmaniyah, in western Sudan, the region's resistance committees announced today.

At least 15 killed, 40 injured in attacks in western Sudan
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21:16 - 20/05/24 por Lusa

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In a statement, the committees accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of attacking Al Rahmaniyah, northwest of Umm Rawaba, in North Kordofan state, “resulting in the killing of at least 15 people, injuring more than 40 others, burning a number of homes and displacing citizens after their property was looted”.

According to the committees, which are an informal network of neighbourhood groups set up in 2013 to support communities amid multiple internal conflicts, the paramilitaries announced on Sunday that they had tightened their grip on the Umm Rawaba area, in a post on social media.

The city of Umm Rawaba is witnessing a large wave of displacement to the north and east of the city, “because of the chaos that prevailed after the fighting that took place on 7 May between the army and the paramilitaries,” they wrote.

In Darfur, the resistance committees in Al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, said that the paramilitaries shelled the northern and western neighbourhoods of the city on Monday, causing deaths and injuries, including “nine wounded in the vicinity of the obstetrics and gynaecology centre”.

“The [RSF’s] artillery shells also hit the Abu Shouk camp for the displaced near Al-Fasher, and there were deaths and injuries that could not be counted due to the difficulty of transporting them to the hospital,” the committees in the region detailed.

According to Sudan’s Doctors’ Syndicate, at least 30,000 people have been killed and more than 70,000 injured in the fighting that erupted on 15 April 2023 between the army and the RSF, amid a process of integrating the paramilitaries into the regular forces, triggering a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as ‘Hemedti’.

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