Darfur Camps Devastated: Over 100 Killed in RSF Attacks, Aid Workers Targeted
Darfur Camps Devastated: Over 100 Killed in RSF Attacks, Aid Workers Targeted
More than 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, have been killed in a brutal two-day offensive by Sudan’s notorious Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias against famine-stricken displacement camps in the Darfur region. The attacks, which occurred on Friday and Saturday, targeted the Zamzam and Abu Shorouk camps, as well as the nearby city of el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur.
U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan Clementine Nkweta-Salami confirmed the horrific toll, stating that nine aid workers were killed “while operating one of the very few remaining health posts still operational” in Zamzam camp. Sudan’s Doctors’ Union identified six medical workers from Relief International among the dead, condemning the RSF for what they called a “criminal and barbaric act.” Relief International later mourned the death of nine of its workers, describing it as a “targeted attack on all health infrastructure in the region.”
The offensive forced approximately 2,400 people to flee the camps and el-Fasher. The Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps house over 700,000 individuals displaced by past fighting in Darfur. This latest escalation comes nearly two years into a devastating civil war between the military and the RSF, which has claimed over 24,000 lives and triggered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, leaving half of Sudan’s population facing extreme hunger.
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