New paramilitary attack in Sudan leaves twenty dead

Khartoum, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) A new attack by Sudanese paramilitaries left some 20 people dead in Al Damukiya, a town near El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan state, in the center of the country, local media reported here. According to the Sudan Tribune news portal, several children were among those killed and injured.

October 9, 2024
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The current attacks come amid the surge of an offensive by the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in its controlled area.

It was also reported that the army regained control of the town of Yariua in the southeastern Blue Nile State, which had been under RSF control since late June.

Eyewitnesses pointed out this Wednesday that the capital, Khartoum, is the scene of new clashes, centered in the area of Al Mugran, in an effort by the Army to expel the paramilitaries from the city.

Since mid-April last year, the nation has been mired in an internal war, following the intensification of power-related contradictions between the head of the army, Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, and the leader of the RSF paramilitary group, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

In Sudan, where a military coup took place in 2019 and another in 2021, a conflict erupted in which thousands of civilians were killed, including some 15,000 in the Western Darfur region alone.

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