ALBAWABA- Fierce fighting erupted again in Sudan’s North Darfur region as clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered a third straight day in El Fasher, the army’s last major stronghold in Darfur.
Residents reported heavy artillery shelling and air strikes as the SAF repelled a large RSF assault, while thousands of civilians remain trapped with dwindling access to food, water, and medicine. Aid agencies warn that the siege, now in its 18th month, has pushed the city to the brink of famine and total collapse.
At least dozens have been killed in recent RSF drone attacks targeting both military and civilian areas, including displacement camps, according to local sources. The escalating violence has deepened Sudan’s humanitarian crisis, which has already displaced over 10 million people nationwide.
In the capital, Khartoum, explosions echoed for the third consecutive day after RSF drone strikes hit near the international airport and other military sites, delaying its long-awaited reopening following a 2.5-year closure.
Witnesses described multiple blasts and rising smoke across the city, though no immediate casualty figures were reported.
The renewed escalation comes amid the protracted civil war that began in April 2023, following the breakdown of a power-sharing deal between SAF leader Gen.
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti. The conflict has killed more than 20,000 people, fueled ethnic massacres in Darfur, and prompted international accusations of war crimes against both factions.
