31 Feared Dead, Scores Injured In Southeastern Sudan’s RSF Renewed Assault
By
OSABUOHIEN VIVIAN ROSE
At least 31 people have been killed and 100 wounded since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed its assault on the city of Sennar in southeastern Sudan on Sunday, a legal activist group said.
Several parts of the city including the main market have been targeted by RSF artillery fire, said Emergency Lawyers, which has monitored civilian deaths and other humanitarian violations.
The progress of the RSF, which already controls most of Sennar and about half of the country, has slowed in the southeast as heavy rains have made movement difficult.
Its war with Sudanese army has created the world’s largest hunger and internal displacement crises, killing tens of thousands of civilians and destroying most of Sudan’s infrastructure and economy.
Emergency Lawyers said the army had killed at least four people in al-Souki, a town near Sennar, during airstrikes. The RSF killed one person and wounded 17 in artillery strikes on el-Obeid, another town it has struggled to control fully.
Both sides in Sudan’s 18-month-old civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, a U.N.-mandated mission said Friday, calling for peacekeepers and a country-wide arms embargo.
Sudan’s army-aligned foreign ministry on Saturday rejected both recommendations, calling the idea of international peacekeepers “the wish of Sudan’s enemies and it will not be fulfilled.”
