UN reports hundreds more dead after two-day RSF assault on Sudan refugee camps

Belfast Telegraph - 15/04
More than 300 people have been killed after two days of intense fighting in Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur region, the United Nations (UN) said.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the nation’s notorious paramilitary group, attacked two refugee camps on Friday and Saturday.

The siege-like assault on two refugee camps was initially reported by the UN to have left more than 100 dead, with 20 children and nine aid workers included in the tally.

FILE – Children sit and play on the remains of a tank, at the river port in Renk, South Sudan in 2023 (Sam Mednick/AP)

However, UN officials have since revised the figure, with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reporting an additional 200 deaths.

OCHA cited local sources that were not identified. The Associated Press could not independently verify the numbers due to the conditions and communications on the ground.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said OCHA has received reports of mass casualties and large-scale displacement following the recent fighting in and around the Zamzam and Abu Shorouk displacement camps.

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