Dozens of civilians killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan

More people killed in North Darfur and Greater Khartoum attacks as fighting between the army and the RSF turns bloodier.

Dozens of people have been killed over two days in Sudan as fighting between the army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifies, according to officials, activists and rights groups.

The 20-month conflict, which has killed tens of thousands, has become increasingly bloody, with the army stepping up air attacks in areas under the RSF control and the paramilitary forces staging raids and carrying out intense artillery strikes.

On Monday, an air attack on a busy market in the town of Kabkabiya, a town about 180km (110 miles) west of North Darfur’s capital el-Fasher, currently surrounded by the RSF, killed more than 100 people and wounded hundreds, including women and children, according to rights group Emergency Lawyers.

The army denied responsibility for the attack, insisting that it had the right to target any location used by the RSF for military purposes, according to the Reuters news agency. There was no immediate comment from the RSF.

On Tuesday, the RSF aimed heavy artillery fire at an army-controlled sector of Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum that forms part of Sudan’s wider capital, according to residents. State-aligned Khartoum Governor Ahmed Othman Hamza reported that at least 65 people had been killed and hundreds wounded.