Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shelled a hospital in North Darfur’s besieged metropolis of El-Fasher and kidnapped six ladies and two kids from a close-by displacement camp, rescuers and a medic mentioned on Sunday (August 24, 2025).
El-Fasher, underneath RSF siege for over a 12 months, is the final main metropolis in western Darfur nonetheless held by the military and a flashpoint in the conflict that erupted in April 2023 between military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The Emergency Response Room on the Abu Shouk camp close to El-Fasher on Sunday mentioned RSF fighters stormed the positioning, seizing eight unarmed civilians — six ladies, a 40-day-old child and a three-year-old little one — and taking them to an undisclosed location.
More than 20 camp residents had been lacking, the rescuers mentioned, warning the precise quantity could possibly be increased.
On Saturday (August 23), RSF artillery additionally hit the emergency and trauma unit of a hospital in El-Fasher, wounding seven folks, together with a employees member, a physician advised AFP.
The bombardment, which continued into Sunday morning, “caused damage to the emergency department, forcing us to suspend operations”, mentioned the physician, requesting anonymity for security causes.
The hospital is one in all solely three nonetheless functioning in town.
Since dropping Khartoum in March, the RSF has stepped up assaults on El-Fasher and surrounding camps in a bid to tighten its maintain on western Sudan the place it now controls many of the Darfur area.
Abu Shouk, dwelling to tens of hundreds of displaced folks, has come underneath repeated assaults this month.
On Thursday, El-Fasher’s resistance committee — one in all a whole bunch of volunteer teams documenting atrocities through the battle — mentioned the RSF shelled a number of areas in Abu Shouk killing 5 members of the identical household in a direct strike on their shelter.
The pro-democracy activists, who additionally coordinate support in Sudan, mentioned 4 different folks had been injured in the lethal strike. Abu Shouk is amongst three camps outdoors El-Fasher the place famine was declared late in 2024.
The United Nations has warned famine might unfold to town, although an absence of information has up to now delayed a attainable declaration.
The Emergency Response Room at Abu Shouk mentioned additionally on Thursday that starvation and illness had been ensuing in deaths at a fee of seven every week in the camp.
It added important infrastructure has additionally collapsed, with 98 % of the camp’s water services out of service as a result of safety threats and gasoline shortages.
The battle, which has killed tens of hundreds, has triggered what the UN calls the world’s greatest displacement and starvation disaster. Both sides face accusations of conflict crimes and utilizing hunger as a weapon of conflict.
