Khartoum, Sudan – More than 70 people were killed when Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a drone strike on a mosque in al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur state, during Friday prayers, Sudan’s Sovereignty Council said.
The Council condemned the assault as a “massacre against innocent civilians” and urged urgent international intervention to stop what it described as systematic violence being carried out by the RSF in Darfur.
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The attack comes amid the latest surge of violence in a civil war now entering its third year between the Sudanese army and the RSF. Al-Fashir, one of the last major cities still under army control in Darfur, has become a focal point of the conflict, with intense fighting in recent months displacing thousands of civilians and worsening the humanitarian crisis.
Humanitarian agencies have repeatedly warned of rising civilian casualties, shortages of food, medicine, and shelter, and the risk of famine across Darfur as fighting escalates.
The Sovereignty Council said security forces were working to repel RSF units in the city and vowed that the perpetrators of the mosque attack would be held accountable.
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