Clashes in Darfur claim 57 lives, says aid group

PORT SUDAN: Clashes between Sudanese paramilitaries and the regular army have killed at least 57 civilians in the besieged Darfur city of El Fasher, a medical source and a volunteer aid group said on Thursday.

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The local resistance committee, a grassroots aid group, said the civilians were killed on Wednesday in clashes and shelling of the city by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 2023.

The violence came just days after the RSF killed more than 400 people in attacks on North Darfur's capital of El Fasher and nearby displacement camps, according to the United Nations.

El Fasher, which the RSF has besieged for nearly a year, is the last major urban stronghold in Darfur still under army control.