The Sudan Doctors Network, a non-governmental medical organization based in Cairo, said the attack took place on Thursday in the al-Murrah area, describing it as “a new crime targeting unarmed civilians in areas with no military presence.”
Sudan has been engulfed in civil war since April 2023, when long-running tensions between the Sudanese army and the RSF erupted into all-out conflict, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Kordofan region has become one of the main battlefields, with fighting intensifying on multiple fronts, including drone strikes.
The RSF and its allied groups control much of the western Darfur region as well as parts of Kordofan along the border with South Sudan, an area rich in oil and gold mines. The paramilitary force has also repeatedly clashed with the army around the town of Bara.
Thursday’s assault came on the second day of Eid al-Adha. In a Facebook statement, the Sudan Doctors Network stressed that “targeting villages, residential areas and brutally executing civilians constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and all the rules and conventions that prohibit attacks on civilians, especially amid the catastrophic humanitarian crisis the people are enduring because of the war.”
The group added that “the continued attacks on civilians and safe villages” are deepening the humanitarian crisis, forcing families to flee, endure suffering and lose their livelihoods.
The attacks came as more than 40 percent of Sudan’s population faces severe hunger, according to a report published Thursday by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The report said nearly 19.5 million people across the country are experiencing acute food insecurity, as the conflict drives the crisis into one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, according to aid agencies.
The Sudan Doctors Network also called on “the international community and human rights and humanitarian organizations to condemn these violations and take urgent action to protect civilians and prevent further attacks on residential areas by pressuring the RSF leaders to stop violations against civilians.”
