Khartoum: At least 47 civilians were killed and dozens more injured when Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shelled residential neighbourhoods of El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on April 23, 2025
The Sudanese military reporting that roughly 250 artillery shells struck the city in what it called “indiscriminate bombardment” and noting its troops had destroyed an RSF artillery position in northern El-Fasher during the clashes
The RSF, which offered no immediate comment, had earlier this week claimed control of the Zamzam refugee camp after heavy fighting, part of a campaign that United Nations figures say has killed over 400 civilians and displaced nearly 400,000 people in the region
El-Fasher has been a strategic battleground since May 2024 in the wider conflict between the RSF and the Sudanese army—a war that erupted in April 2023 and which the UN estimates has claimed more than 20,000 lives and forced 15 million people from their homes, creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises
