At least 20 people have been killed by artillery shells at a camp for displaced people in the Darfur region, in an attack attributed to Sudanese paramilitaries, a civil rights group fighting to restore democracy in Sudan has said.
“The information we have received so far on the casualties in the Abu Shuq IDP camp is ‘at least 20 dead and 32 injured,'” the local Resistance Committee, which coordinates mutual aid among residents, said on Monday.
The update did not specify when the attack took place, during which “the market and the central square” of the camp, which is located near the city of El Faser, “were affected.”
In early August, a UN-backed panel reported that the war has caused famine in another displaced persons camp, Zamzam, which is home to more than 300,000 people.
The United Nations announced today that 38 trucks carrying 1,250 tons of humanitarian aid for the people of Darfur crossed the border in the last week. However, the needs are enormous, as the wider region is crowded with approximately five million displaced persons.
Fierce fighting has been raging around El Faser, the only capital of Darfur’s five states that has not fallen into the hands of paramilitaries and is besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), since the beginning of May.
The war in Sudan broke out on 15 April 2023 between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and those of Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, his former deputy and head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The armed conflict has caused tens of thousands of deaths and a major humanitarian crisis, with the number of displaced people exceeding 10 million, according to UN figures.
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