- Volunteer rescuers in Sudan reported on Sunday that at least 23 people were killed and 40 others were injured — some in critical condition — as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) carried out an airstrike on a market in the capital, Khartoum, the previous day.[1][2]
- According to a spokesperson for the Southern Belt Emergency Room, the bombing "caused massive destruction" around the market area. Shopkeepers, shoppers, and local residents were among the casualties.[3][4]
- This comes as Sudan's military has resorted to airstrikes in central and southern Khartoum as part of a campaign to reclaim territory in the capital held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began on Friday.[3][5]
- The RSF controls much of the capital as well as the western region of Darfur, while Sudan's military controls the eastern border area, from the Red Sea to Ethiopia.[5][6]
- The overall death toll of the civil war, which broke out in April 2023 from a power struggle between the army and SAF, is highly uncertain — estimated at between 20K and up to 150K according to differing sources — as health and government services have collapsed.[5][7][8]
- Sudan now faces both the world's largest displacement crisis, with over 8M people internally displaced, and largest hunger crisis, with nearly 25M in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN data.[4][8][9]
