Sudan paramilitary attack killed 18 civilians: monitor
Africa
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AFP
| Aug 09, 2025
Members of the Sudanese Red Crescent and forensic experts exhume the remains of people from makeshift graves for reburial in the local cemetery in Khartoum's southern suburb of al-Azhari on August 2, 2025 after the dead were buried in a rush when the area was under control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries. [AFP]
Sudan's paramilitaries killed 18 civilians in an attack on two villages west of Khartoum earlier this week, a monitoring group said on Saturday.
The attack occurred on Thursday in North Kordofan state, which is key to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' fuel smuggling route from Libya.
The area has been a major battleground between the army and the paramilitaries for months, and communications lines with the rest of the world have been mostly cut off.
According to the Emergency Lawyers human rights group, which has documented abuses since the start of the war two years ago, the attack on the two villages in North Kordofan "killed 18 civilians and wounded dozens".
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The wounded were transferred to the state capital of El-Obeid for treatment.
Tolls are nearly impossible to independently verify in Sudan, with many medical facilities forced out of service and limited media access.
Since the RSF lost control of the capital Khartoum to the army in March, it has focused its attacks in the west of the country, where it controls much of the vast Darfur region.
Both sides have faced accusations of war crimes during the conflict, which has killed tens of thousands and created what the United Nations describes as the world's largest displacement and hunger crises.