A UN official said on Saturday that Sudan’s infamous paramilitary group launched a two-day attack on a famine-hitting camp that killed more than 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers in the Darfur region.
Sultan Clementine Clementine Clementine Clementine (Nkermine Nkweta-Salami) said rapid support forces and allied militias attacked the camps of Zamzam and Abu Shorouk, the capital of the Northern Darfur province.
According to the United Nations, El-Fasher is under control of the army, which has fought against the RSF since Sudan landed into the civil war two years ago, killing more than 24,000 people, although activists say the number may be much higher.
Nkweta-Salami said in a statement that the camp was attacked again. She said nine aid workers were killed in Zamzam Camp “in running one of the remaining health positions.”
“Since the conflict began two years ago, it has been a series of brutal attacks on displaced people and aid workers in Sudan, representing another deadly and unacceptable escalation,” she said.
Nkweta-Salami has not identified aid workers, but the Sudanese doctors union said in a statement that six medical staff from Relief International were killed when they were attacked on Friday at the Zamzam hospital. The coalition said they included Dr. Mahmoud Babaker Idris, a doctor at the hospital and Adam Babaker Abdallah, the head of the group in the region. It accused RSF of “this crime and barbarity.”
In a statement Saturday night, Relief International mourned the deaths of nine of its workers, saying they were killed in a “targeted attack on all health infrastructure in the region,” including the group’s clinic.
The group said Zamzam’s central market and hundreds of temporary houses in the camp were destroyed in the attack.
According to the general coordination of local groups displaced people and refugees in Darfur, the offensive forced about 2,400 people to escape the camp and El-Fasher.
Nkweta-Salami said Zamzam and Abu Shouk shelter all 700,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Darfur during the fight in the region.
At the end of last month, Sudan’s military regained control of Khartoum, a major symbolic victory in the war. But the RSF still controls most Darfur and some other areas.
The two camps are one of five regions in Sudan, and the Integrated Food Security Stage Classification (Global Hunger Monitoring Group IPC) found famine. The war has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with approximately 25 million people (half the Sudanese population) facing extreme hunger.
