Baku, TurkicWorld
A paramilitary attack on an area east of North Darfur’s besieged capital El-Fasher has killed 14 Sudanese civilians, activists said on Sunday.
The “treacherous attack” took place in an area “northeastern Um Kadadah in North Darfur state on Saturday,” said the local resistance committee. The group is one of hundreds of volunteer organizations that have coordinated aid across Sudan during 21 months of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, TurkicWorld reports referencing Arab News.
El-Fasher, a city of some 2 million people which has been under siege of the paramilitary troops since May, has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war as the army battles to keep its last foothold in the vast Darfur region of western Sudan. Nearly all of Darfur is now controlled by the paramilitary troops, which has also taken over swathes of the neighboring Kordofan region and much of central Sudan.
The regular army still controls the north and east, while the capital Khartoum and neighboring cities are a battleground between the warring parties.
