The notorious paramilitary group of Sudan launched a two -day attack in hunger camps for displaced people who left more than 100 dead, including 20 children and nine aid workers, in the Darfur region, a UN official said on Saturday.
The rapid support forces and the allied militias launched an offensive in the fields of Zamzam and Abu Shorouk and the nearby city of El-Fafasher, the provincial capital of the province of Northern Darfur, said the Humanitarian and resident coordinator of the UN in Sudan Clementine Nweta Salam.
The-Fafasher is under the control of the military, who has fought against the RSF since he descended to the civil war two years ago, killing more than 24,000 people, according to the United Nations, the activists thought the activists say the number.
The camps were attacked again on Saturday, said Nkweta-Salami in a statement. She said that nine humanitarian workers were killed “while operating one of the few removable health positions that are still operational” in the Zamzam camp.
“This representative, another deadly and unacceptable escalation in a series of brutal attacks against displaced people and humanitarian workers in Sudan since the beginning of this conflict almost two years ago,” he said.
NKWETA-Salami did not identify humanitarian workers, but the Sudan Physician Union said in a statement that six medical workers with international relief were killed when their hospital in Zamzam was attacked on Friday. They include Dr. Mahmoud Babaker Idris, hospital doctor, and Adam Babaker Abdallah, head of the region group, said the union. He blamed the RSF for “this criminal and barbarian act.”
In a statement on Saturday night, Relief International cried the death of their nine workers, saying that they were killed the previous day in an “attack aimed at all the health infrastructure in the region”, including the group clinic.
The group said that the central market in Zamzam along with hundreds of improvised houses in the camp were destroyed in the attack.
The offensive forced some 2,400 people to flee from the camps and El-Fafasher, according to the general coordination for displaced persons and refugees, a local group in Darfur.
Zamzam and Abu Shouk refuge more than 700,000 people who have forced the houses through Darfur Duration fits the episodes of fighting in the region, Niketa-Salami said.
At the end of last month, the Sudanese army regained control over Jardum, a great symbolic victory in the war. But the RSF still controls the majority of Darfur and some other areas.
The two camps are among the five areas in Sudan, where the famine was detected by the integrated classification of the Food Security phase, IPC, a global hunger monitoring group. The war has created Larst’s humanitarian crisis, with approximately 25 million people, half or the population of Sudan, facing extreme hunger.