ALBAWABA - According to local reports, an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a small town in el Gezira in Central Sudan, killed at least 40 civilians.
Abu Gouta Resistance Committee, a non-governmental group, released a statement regarding the attack. "An RSF attack on Gouz Al-Naqa village of Abu Gouta area in Gezira State killed at least 40 civilians,".
According to Xinhua, some bodies remained uncovered in the area because the RSF is preventing displaced people from returning to bury the deceased.
The committee urged civil society groups to exert pressure on the RSF to enable people to access the area and bury the deceased. The RSF has yet to officially confirm responsibility for the attack.
Witnesses told AFP that fighting flared up again in Sudan's el-Fasher on Saturday after an offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
The Yale University Humanitarian Research Laboratory reported "unprecedented large-scale fighting between the army and the RSF" in the city, while witnesses told AFP that the army bombarded many areas in the city's south and east.
Since May, the RSF has besieged the city, which is the only capital in the five Darfur states that they do not control.
Minni Minawi, governor of the Darfur area, stated that the Sudanese army was resisting "a large attack" by the RSF, although the organization claimed to have advanced and occupied military bases in the city.
"The neighborhoods are completely empty, and all you can hear is explosions and missiles," Ibrahim Ishaq, 52, who escaped the city on Friday and headed west, told AFP.
