Artillery assault struck the Karari neighbourhood of Omdurman as the country grapples with escalating violence between military factions.
The conflict has killed at least 5,000 and injured more than 12,000 others, according to the United Nations. / Photo: AP Archive.
In a post Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter, the aid group — known by its French initials MSF — said the attack took place in the Karari neighbourhood of Omdurman city Thursday but did not say which of the country's warring parties were responsible. Children were among the dead, it said. The fighting has since spread to several parts of the country, reducing the capital, Khartoum, and neighbouring Omdurman to an urban battlefield. The conflict also fueled ethnic violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
At a news conference Thursday, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said 18 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. So far, UN aid agencies have only reached around 3.6 million people in the country, she said.
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