RSF and Allied Militias launched attacks on Zamzam and Abu Shorouk Camps and the city of El-Fasher.
According to the United Nations, Sudan’s Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conducted starvation attacks on the displaced Darfur region, which have displaced the displaced people in the Darfur region.
Sudan’s UN resident and humanitarian coordinator Clementine Nukuweta Salami said on Saturday that the RSF and allied militias had launched attacks in the camps of Zamzam and Abu Shoruk and nearby cities of Elfasher and North Darfur’s capital.
The camp was attacked on Friday and again on Saturday, Nkweta-Salami said in a statement that nine aid workers were killed at Zamzam camp “while running one of the few remaining health posts.”
According to UN figures, Zamzam and Abu Shuk have evacuated more than 700,000 people who were forced to flee their homes beyond Darfur during battles in past regions.
“This represents yet another deadly and unacceptable escalation in a series of brutal attacks on displaced people and aid workers in Sudan since the onset of this conflict almost two years ago,” she said.
“I strongly urge those committing such behavior to be easily misled.”
Although UN officials did not identify aid workers, the Sudanian doctors union said in a statement that six medical workers with the international relief group were killed when the hospital in Zamzam was attacked on Friday.
They include hospital doctor Mahmoud Babaker Idris and local group director Adam Babaker Abdallah. He condemned RSF for “this criminal and wild conduct.”
Relief International confirmed the deaths of nine workers and said they were killed in “target attacks on all health infrastructure in the area,” including the group’s clinic. The group said that a home in the middle of Zamzam’s central market and hundreds of camps was destroyed in the attack.
Zamzam and Abu Shouk are one of five regions in Sudan. There, they were detected by the integrated food security stage classification, IPC, and global hunger monitoring group. The war created the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis, with around 25 million people (half of Sudan’s population) facing extreme hunger.
In recent weeks, paramilitary groups have stepped up their attacks on Elfasher last month after the Army recaptured the domestic capital Khartoum.
Earlier this month, Amnesty International accused the RSF of claiming women and girls of “terrifying” sexual violence and gang rape, as part of the country’s strategy in the civil war.
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