Paramilitary attack on Sudan displacement camp kills 14: rescuers

Shelling by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 14 people Wednesday in a famine-hit displacement camp in the Darfur region, volunteer rescuers said.

The attack hit a market and residential areas of the Abu Shouk camp, according to the local Emergency Response Room, one of hundreds across the country delivering frontline aid since the war between the army and the rival paramilitary group began in April 2023.

The rescue group said the "heavy artillery shelling" killed 14 people and wounded several others.

Abu Shouk, near the North Darfur state capital of El-Fasher, shelters tens of thousands of people displaced by violence both from previous conflicts in Darfur and the current war.

Since losing control of the capital Khartoum in March, the RSF has intensified its attacks on El-Fasher -- the last state capital in Darfur still under army control -- and on nearby camps including Abu Shouk.

On 18 May, the Abu Shouk Emergency Response Room reported 14 killed in a similar attack on the camp, also blamed on the RSF.

Since it began, the war has killed tens of thousands, uprooted 13 million and created the world's largest hunger and displacement crises.

It has also effectively split Sudan in two, with the army holding the centre, north and east while the RSF controls nearly all of Darfur and, with its allies, parts of the south.