Sudanese paramilitary attacks famine-stricken camps, killing at least 100

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have killed at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, after launching an assault on two famine-stricken camps in the Darfur region.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have killed at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, after launching an assault on two famine-stricken camps in the Darfur region, the latest escalation in a bitter civil war about to enter its third year.

The RSF targeted the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps, where more than 700,000 people are sheltering from the relentless violence that has killed tens of thousands, forcibly displaced 12.7 million people and left 24.6 million people facing acute hunger, according to the United Nations.

U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Clementine Nkweta-Salami said Saturday that the latest attacks marked “yet another deadly and unaccepted escalation” in the conflict, and that attacks on civilians and aid workers marked “grave violations of international humanitarian law.”

“The colleagues from an international non-governmental organization were killed while operating one of the very few remaining health posts still operational in the camp,” she said.

The war pits Sudan’s armed forces, led by the country’s de facto ruler Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against the RSF militia commanded by his former deputy, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rsf-sudan-paramilitary-kill-100-famine-camps-rcna201030

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