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A paramilitary attack on a besieged city left 17 dead – Paramilitary attack besieged city left
The FSRs bombed this Saturday in Darfur-Nord the city of El-Facher. Meanwhile, besieged for more than a year, killing at least 17 people.
Posted: 16.08.2025, 10:21 p.m.
Since April 2023, the conflict in Sudan has made tens of thousands of deaths and uprooted millions of people.
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The Sudanese paramilitaries of the rapid support forces (FSR) bombed the city of El-Facher on Saturday. Meanwhile, which they besiege in Darfur-Nord, killing at least 17 civilians and injuring 25 others, a medical source told AFP.
This source from the El-Facher hospital. In addition, which requested anonymity for security reasons, said that this assessment only concerned the victims supported on the spot, adding that others had been buried by their families without medical care, for lack of access to health structures due to insecurity.
Besieged since May 2024 by the FSR. However, El-Facher undergoes repeated attacks as part of The war which has opposed since April 2023 paramilitaries to the Sudanese army. Therefore, According to the local resistance committee – one of the hundreds of groups of volunteers who document the atrocities of the conflict -. Consequently, the attack on Saturday involved heavy artillery shots targeting several residential districts.
Strikes on a displaced camp – Paramilitary attack besieged city left
The bombings. Similarly, which started early in the morning and lasted until the end paramilitary attack besieged city left of the afternoon, caused significant destruction and new waves of travel, said the committee, qualifying the assault on one of the deadliest attacks recently carried out against the city.
A few kilometers to the north. the FSRs also bombed the moved camp of Abu Chouk, struck by famine, killing several civilians including a community chief and injuring at least 20 other people, according to the camp emergency cell.
In recent months. El-Facher and the neighboring camps have been particularly targeted by the FSR after their withdrawal from the capital Khartoum, taken over in March by the army. In April. a major FSR offensive on the neighboring camp of Zamzam had caused the move of tens of thousands of people, many of whom were looking for refuge in El-Facher.
“Worse humanitarian crisis in the world”
The fighting also intensified in the neighboring region of Kordofan. The International Organization for Migration (OIM) reported that around 3000 people were moved from the city of Kadugli. in southern Kordofan, in just five days last week due to persistent violence.
Since April 2023. Sudan has been immersed in a war of power between the military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and his former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, chief of the FSR. The conflict has made tens of thousands of deaths. uprooted millions of people and provoked what the UN describes as the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”.
The country is de facto divided. the army controlling the north, the east and the center, while the FSR dominate almost all of the Darfur and, with their allies, certain areas of the paramilitary attack besieged city left South. Last year, famine was declared in three camps near El-Facher, including Abu Chouk and Zamzam.
Famine. cholera
According to the World Food Program (PAM), thousands of families trapped in El-Facher are “threatened with famine”, and the price of basic foodstuffs, such as Sorgho and wheat, are up to 460% higher than in other regions of Sudan.
The markets. clinics have been attacked, and the community kitchens that formerly fed on displaced families closed their doors for lack of supplies, also warned the United Nations agency.
Malnutrition has already killed 63 people. mainly women and children, in just one week in El-Facher, a senior health official last week. The humanitarian crisis is aggravated by an epidemic of cholera, which is propagated in particular in the overcrowded displaced camps.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday that Sudan has known its worst cholera epidemic for years. fueled by the current conflict. In the Darfur region alone. MSF said Thursday that it has treated “more than 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths” the previous week.
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