Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report.
Flames gripped the Sudanese capital on Sunday and paramilitary forces attacked the army headquarters for the second day in a row, witnesses reported, as fighting raged into its sixth month.
Air strikes killed at least 46 people and injured dozens on Sunday at a Khartoum market, local activists said, one of the deadliest single attacks in Sudan’s nearly five months of war.
Fighting in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals erupted on April 15, killing more than 400 people, igniting a humanitarian catastrophe, and raising fears of a prolonged and unpredictable civil war.
The RSF said in a statement that it had taken full control of the camp belonging to the Central Reserve Police southern Khartoum, and posted footage of its fighters inside the facility.
The United Nations has accused the conflicting parties in Sudan of committing violations against children. Human rights officials have documented "dozens and other serious violations against children committed by the parties.
Red Crescent has declared the continuous fighting in Sudan's troubled areas of capital Khartoum and Darfur has led volunteers to bury 180 bodies recovered from combat zones without identifying them.
More than a million people have been displaced by fighting in Sudan so far, including a quarter of a million refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson says.
Reports indicate that the Sudanese peace talks in Saudi Arabia have been concluded with the signing of a statement between the army and the rapid support forces of this country.
The Sudanese army announced in a statement: RSF forces attempted to attack the air defense command in Khartoum, but the Sudanese armed forces repelled the attack.
Before leaving for Sudan, the head of humanitarian aid and relief of the United Nations considered the humanitarian situation in this country dire and said that this situation has reached the point of collapse.
In an operation using 6 military transport planes and attack helicopters, the American army evacuated 70 employees of the embassy of this country in Sudan.
180 people were killed and more than 1,800 others were injured during the last three days of clashes between the army forces and the Rapid Support militia in Sudan.