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At least 54 civilians were killed in Sudan in a shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on an open market in the city of Omdurman, north of the capital Khartoum. The attack by the RSF on the Sabrein Market yesterday also wounded more than 150 others. Witnesses said the artillery shelling came from western Omdurman, where the RSF remains in control, and was supported by drones. RSF has not yet commented on the incident.
The attack was the latest in a series of deadly attacks in the escalated civil war that has wrecked the north-eastern African country. Last week, about 70 people were killed in an RSF attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in the western region of Darfur. Sudan has been gripped by a devastating conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF since mid-April 2023, which claimed at least 29,683 lives and displaced over 15 million people, either inside or outside Sudan, according to the latest estimates by international organisations.