At least 31 people have been killed and 100 injured since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed their assault on the Southeastern Sudanese city of Sennar on Sunday, according to the legal activist group, Emergency Lawyers.
The RSF’s artillery fire targeted key areas, including the city’s main market, but their progress has been hampered by heavy rains.
Despite controlling much of Sennar and half of Sudan, the ongoing war with the Sudanese army has left tens of thousands of civilians dead, created the world’s largest hunger crisis, and devastated the nation’s infrastructure.
A U.N.-mandated mission on Friday accused both sides in Sudan’s 18-month civil war of abuses that could constitute war crimes, urging the deployment of peacekeepers and a nationwide arms embargo.
The following day, Sudan’s foreign ministry, which is aligned with the army, dismissed the proposals, describing the call for international peacekeepers as a desire of Sudan’s adversaries that would not be realised.
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