- Tragic Airstrike Claims Lives of Five Children
- Power Struggle and Escalating Tensions
- Humanitarian Crisis and Regional Impact
Five children have been slain in an airstrike in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, according to officials.
In the densely populated Yarmouk district, 25 homes were devastated in an attack on Saturday.
A day prior, a senior army general had threatened to intensify attacks on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Mid-April hostilities broke out between the Sudanese army and the RSF as a consequence of a vicious power struggle within the country’s military leadership.
Beginning in early June, the RSF asserted complete control of Yarmouk, a region of the capital containing an arms factory.
It is difficult to determine the exact number of people slain in the fighting, but it is believed to be well over 1,000, including many civilians caught in the crossfire.
According to the United Nations, approximately 2.2 million people have been dispersed within the country, and over 500,000 have sought refuge in neighboring nations.
Multiple ceasefires have been declared to enable civilians to flee the fighting, but none have been observed.
RSF reports that the recent attack targeted civilians in Mayo, Yarmouk, and Mandela. The military has not commented.
Tens of thousands of refugees have crossed the frontier into neighboring Chad.
There, doctors and hospitals are overworked and struggling to keep up.
The violence has also reignited a twenty-year-old conflict in the western Darfur region of Sudan.
