Sennar: Crowded market shelled in Sudan killing more than 20

Dozens were wounded in the attack which a doctors' union is blaming on the paramilitary RSF.

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The Sudan Doctors Network said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for the attack in the city of Sennar on Sunday, condemning it as a "massacre" of civilians.

It happened a day after Sudan's military rejected a proposal by UN experts to send in an international force to protect civilians.

Thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million have fled their homes since civil war broke out between the army and the RSF last April, making it one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Several rounds of peace talks brokered by Saudi Arabia and the US have failed to end the conflict.

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