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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Six killed as RSF attack devastates Sudanese hospital in North Kordofan
At least six people have been killed in a suspected drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a hospital in southern Sudan, the latest civilian facility targeted in the brutal civil war, officials and rights advocates have said. The Emergency Lawyers, a rights group, blamed the RSF for the attack on Friday on the Obeid International Hospital, al-Dhaman, in Obeid, the capital city of North Kordofan province. At least 15 others were wounded in the attack, it said. In a statement on social media, the hospital said the attack resulted in severe damage to its main building. Services at the hospital, the main medical facility serving the region, were suspended until further notice, it said. A Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) source told the AFP news agency that the bombardment also hit a second hospital in the city centre. The city is a key staging post on the army's supply route to the west, where the besieged city of el-Fasher is the only state capital in the vast Darfur region still under the army-led government's control. El-Fasher has witnessed attritional fighting between SAF and RSF since May 2024, despite international warnings about the risks of violence in a city that serves as a key humanitarian hub for the five Darfur to humanitarian woes on the ground, the Health Ministry in Khartoum state on Thursday reported 942 new cholera infections and 25 deaths the previous day, following 1,177 cases and 45 deaths the day before. Aid workers say the effort to control the cholera outbreak is deteriorating due to the near-total collapse of health services, with about 90 percent of hospitals in key warzones no longer operational. Since August 2024, Sudan has reported more than 65,000 suspected cholera cases and at least 1,700 deaths across 12 of its 18 states. Khartoum alone has seen 7,700 cases and 185 deaths, including more than 1,000 infections in children under five, as it contends with more than two years of fighting between the army and the RSF. 'Sudan urgently needs an increase in aid to help combat the cholera outbreak, hundreds of cases per day, which has even exceeded the more than 1000 cases per day,' Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser, Doctors Without Borders's, known by its French initials MSF, emergency coordinator in Sudan, told Al Jazeera. 'This is only the tip of the iceberg, because nobody has the full picture at the moment, unfortunately,' Dangelser said. Fighting in the al-Salha district, south of Ondurman, where there was a pocket of people sick with cholera, 'greatly contributed' to the spread of the disease, said Dangelser. The army said on May 19 it had seized control of the al-Salha district, considered the last stronghold of the RSF in Khartoum State. 'Now it's not just the returnees to Khartoum that are exacerbating the situation because of the devastated water system and the lack of healthcare, but it's also now spreading to Darfur, where people have been displaced by fighting,' Dangelser added. Violence and death follow Sudanese fleeing the war beyond their country's borders. On Friday, 11 Sudanese refugees and a Libyan driver were killed in a car crash in the desert in Libya, according to local authorities. Since fighting between the RSF and SAF broke out in April 2023, the UN has said 11 million people have been forced out of their homes, including 250,000 who have escaped into neighbouring Libya. Tens of thousands have been killed in the civil war.
Euronews
11 hours ago
- Euronews
At least 11 Sudanese migrants killed in Libya desert car crash
Eleven Sudanese migrants have been killed in a car crash in the desert in Libya, authorities have said, the latest tragedy involving Sudanese people fleeing the civil war in their home country. The crash between the migrants' vehicle and a truck happened early on Friday, 90 kilometres north of the town of Kufra, the local Ambulance and Emergency Service said in a statement. The dead included three women and two children and the group's Libyan driver, the service's director Ibrahim Abu al-Hassan told The Associated Press. A 65-year-old man and his 10-year-old son were also wounded in the crash, he added. It was the latest deadly incident involving Sudanese migrants in the Libyan desert. Earlier this month, seven Sudanese nationals were found dead after their vehicle broke down in the desert. The vehicle broke down on a path used by traffickers between Chad and Libya, leaving 34 migrants on board stranded for several days in the desert. Libya was plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. It has become a main transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East and hoping to reach Europe. The country shares borders with six nations and has a long coastline along the Mediterranean. Human traffickers have benefited from more than a decade of instability, smuggling migrants across Libya's borders with six nations, including Chad, Niger, Sudan Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia. Thousands of Sudanese have fled to Libya since April 2023 after simmering tensions between the Sudanese military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) exploded into street fighting across the country. The conflict in Sudan has turned into a civil war that killed thousands people, displaced over 14 million, and pushed parts of the county into famine.
Indian Express
12 hours ago
- Health
- Indian Express
Suspected drone attack on hospital in Sudan kills 6, activists say Cairo
A suspected drone attack by Sudanese paramilitaries Friday hit a hospital in southern Sudan, killing at least six people and knocking the facility out of service, officials and rights advocates said. The Emergency Lawyers, a rights group, blamed the Rapid Support Forces for the attack on the Obeid International Hospital, al-Dhaman, in Obeid, the capital city of North Kordofan province. At least 15 others were wounded in the attack, it said. In a statement on social media, the hospital said the attack resulted in severe damage to its main building. Services at the hospital, the main medical facility serving the region, were suspended until further notice, it said. Sudan plunged into civil war on April 15, 2023, when simmering tensions between the military and the RSF exploded into open warfare in the capital Khartoum and other parts of the country. The Emergency Lawyers, which tracks Sudan's war, said the attack on the hospital was part of a large-scale artillery offensive on the city, which is held by the military. Obeid is 363 kilometres south of Khartoum. There was no immediate comment from the RSF. The attack was the latest on Obeid. On May 10, at least 20 inmates were killed in a drone attack on the city's main prison. That attack was also blamed on the RSF. The war in Sudan has been marked by atrocities including mass rape and ethnically motivated killings that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in the western region of Darfur, according to the United Nations and international rights groups. The conflict created the world's worst humanitarian crisis and pushed parts of the country into famine. Thousands of people have been killed and over 14 million were forced to flee their homes.
DW
12 hours ago
- Politics
- DW
Sudan: Several killed in RSF strike on hospital – DW – 05/30/2025
The paramilitary group's drone attack on a hospital in the city of El-Obeid resulted in 6 people killed. According to the UN, the conflict in Sudan has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A suspected drone attack in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary hit a hospital, killing six people and wounding at least 12 in the city of El-Obeid. An army source told the AFP news agency that the RSF attack targeted "residential areas of the city with heavy artillery," also adding the bombardment had also hit a second hospital in the city. Right groups, the Emergency Lawyers, blamed the attack on the RSF. The hospital was out of service as a result of the attack. El-Obeid is a city located some 360 kilometers southwest of capital Khartoum. It was besieged by the RSF for almost two years, before the country's army broke the siege in February. The city has been under RSF bombardment ever since, due to it being key to the army's supply route to the west, where the only city under army control is El-Fasher. Why Sudan's civil war is far from over To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Sudan war driving mass hunger, displacement The paramilitary group and the Sudanese army have been clashing along the road between El-Obeid and El-Fasher in recent weeks. The war between the two sides has killed thousands of people and uprooted 13 million since breaking in April 2023, as well as effectively splitting Sudan into two parts, with the army holding the center, east and north, while the RSF and their allies control nearly all of Darfur and parts of the south. According to the United Nations (UN), the conflict in Sudan has created the world's biggest hunger and displacement crises. It pushed parts of the country into famine. The war has been marked by atrocities including mass rape and ethnically motivated killings that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in the Darfur region, rights groups said. Edited by: Zac Crellin
Toronto Star
14 hours ago
- Toronto Star
A suspected drone attack on a hospital in Sudan kills 6, activists say
CAIRO (AP) — A suspected drone attack by Sudanese paramilitaries Friday hit a hospital in southern Sudan, killing at least six people and knocking the facility out of service, officials and rights advocates said. The Emergency Lawyers, a rights group, blamed the Rapid Support Forces for the attack on the Obeid International Hospital, al-Dhaman, in Obeid, the capital city of North Kordofan province. At least 15 others were wounded in the attack, it said.
