A child was killed and 6 civilians wounded when rockets fell on their homes in the Al-Inqaz suburb south of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, a local aid group said.
Mohamed Abdulla Kandasha, the official spokesperson of the Janoub al-Hizam Emergency Room, told Radio Tamazuj that 3 rockets fell on the suburbs of Al-Inqaz and Azhari Tuesday.
“Around 6:45 p.m., 3 rockets hit the suburbs of Al-Ingaz and Azhari killing a child and wounding 6 people,” he said. “The wounded have been transferred to Bashaer Hospital and their condition is stable.”
Abdulla pointed out that casualties were few because the area was deserted.
He said the area has continued to witness fierce fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since the outbreak of the war in April 2023.
Indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes by both factions are not uncommon in Sudan’s war, which has made the Greater Khartoum area a battleground.
The conflict has since spread to several parts of the country. In the Greater Khartoum area, which includes the cities of Khartoum, Omdurman, and Bahri, RSF troops have commandeered civilian homes and turned them into operational bases. The military responded by bombing these residential areas, rights groups and activists say.
In the western Darfur region — the scene of a genocidal campaign in the early 2000s — the conflict has morphed into ethnic violence, with the RSF and allied Arab militias attacking ethnic African groups, according to rights groups and the United Nations.
Fierce clashes ensued last week in al-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province, following an attack on a military facility by the RSF, local media reported.
Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, expressed concerns a week ago about the clashes in al-Fasher. Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, the U.N. official called for warring factions to stop fighting “so that humanitarians can bring in food, medicine and shelter items to those who need them most.”
The war has killed more than 4,000 people, according to August figures from the United Nations. However, the real toll is almost certainly much higher, doctors and activists say.