At least 60 people were killed in a drone strike by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a displacement shelter in El-Fasher, a besieged city in Darfur. The attack targeted the Dar al-Arqam camp, leaving women, children, and the elderly among the victims. El-Fasher has been under siege for 17 months as the RSF tries to capture the army’s last stronghold. Residents face extreme hunger, disease, and bombardment amid Sudan’s ongoing civil conflict since 2023.
At least 60 people have been killed in a drone strike on a displacement shelter in El-Fasher, a besieged Sudanese city teetering on the edge of collapse.
According to the El-Fasher resistance committee—comprising local residents and activists—the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the Dar al-Arqam camp, located inside a university, with two drone strikes and eight artillery shells.
“Children, women, and the elderly were brutally killed, and many bodies were completely burned,” the group said in a statement cited by AFP.
The RSF has surrounded El-Fasher for the past 17 months in an effort to seize the Sudanese army’s last remaining stronghold in the Darfur region.
The resistance committee described the situation in the city as having “gone beyond disaster and genocide.”
Severe hunger and disease are spreading as residents endure relentless bombardment and a growing shortage of food and medical supplies.
Sudan has been engulfed in conflict since 2023, when a power struggle erupted between the leaders of the RSF and the Sudanese army, triggering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.