The RSF and the allied militias launched an assault on the camps of Zamzam and Abu Shorouk and the city of El-Fafasher.
Sudanese paramilitary fast support forces (RSF) have carried out a two -day attack on hunger camps for displaced people in the Darfur region that killed more than 100 people, including 20 children’s nations, according to workers.
Clementine NKWETA-Salami, the UN Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in Sudan, said on Saturday that the RSF and the allied militias launched an offensive in the camps of Zamzam and Abu Shorouk and the nearby city of El-Pasher, the provincial capital of northern Darfur.
The camps were attacked on Friday and again on Saturday, said Nkweta-Salami in a statement, and nine help workers were killed “while operating one of the few remunerating health positions” in the Zamzam camp.
Zamzam and Abu Shouk refuge to more than 700,000 people who have forced the houses through Darfur duration fits fighting episodes in the region, according to the UN figures.
“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.
“Slighted those who commit such acts to give immediately.”
The UN official did not identify humanitarian workers, but the Sudan Physician Union said in a statement that six medical workers with the international help group were killed when their hospital in Zamzam was attacked on Friday.
They include Mahmoud Babaker Idris, a doctor at the hospital, and Adam Babaker Abdallah, head of the region group, said the union. He blamed the RSF for “this criminal and barbarian act.”
Relief International confirmed the death of their nine workers, saying that they were killed 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 and hundreds of improvised houses in the camp were destroyed in the attack.
Zamzam and Abu Shouk are among the five areas in Sudan, where the famine was detected by the integrated food security phase classification, 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.
In recent weeks, the paramilitaries have intensified their attacks against El-Fafasher, the only state capital in Darfur still out of control, after the army, recovered the national capital Jartum last month.
Amnesty International published a report earlier this month accusing the RSF of subjecting women to “horrible” sexual violence and a group violation, as part of their strategy in the country’s civil war.