Sudan paramilitary kill at least 100 people in attack on the fields affected by famine
SudanThe notorious paramilitary group killed at least 100 people in a two -day attack on the fields affected by the famine for the displaced people in the Darfur region, said a United Nations official.
About 20 children and nine help assistants were among those killed by Quick support forces, O RSF and allied militias during their offensive in the fields of Zamzam and Abu Shorouk and the nearby city of El-Fasher, the provincial capital of the North Darfur province, Friday.
El-Fasher is under the control of the military, who has fought the RSF since then Sudan went down to a civil war Two years ago, killing more than 24,000 people, according to the United Nations, even if activists say that the number is probably much higher.
The fields were attached again on Saturday, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in SudanClementine Nkweta-Salami, said in a note.
He said that nine aid operators were killed “while they managed one of the very few health places that remained operational” in the Zamzam field.
“This represents yet another fatal and unacceptable escalation in a series of brutal attacks on the displaced people and help operators in Sudan from the beginning of this conflict almost two years ago,” he said.
Ms Nkweta-Salami did not identify the operators of the author, but the Sudanese doctors’ union declared in a declaration that six medical operators with the rescue were killed when their Zamzam hospital was attacked on Friday.
They included dr. Mahmoud Babaker Idris and Adam Babaker Abdallah, head of the group in the region, said the union. He blamed the RSF for “this criminal and barbaric act”.
In a statement on Saturday evening, Relief International cried the death of the nine workers, saying that they had been killed the previous day in a “attack aimed at all health infrastructures in the region”, including the group’s clinic.
The group stated that the central market of Zamzam together with hundreds of improvised houses in the field were destroyed by the attack.
The offensive forced almost 2,400 people to flee the fields and El-Fasher, said the general coordination for displaced and refugees, a local group in Darfur.
Zamzam and Abu Shouk refuge over 700,000 people forced to escape from their homes through Darfur during the past attacks in the region, said Nkweta-Salami.
The Sudanese army last month regained the control of Khartum, a great symbolic victory in war. But the RSF remained in control of most of the Darfur and some other areas.
The two fields are among the five areas of Sudan who suffer from famine, according to the integrated classification of the food safety phase to monitor global hunger.
The war created the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world, with about 25 million people, half of the population of Sudan, which faces extreme hunger.
