33 Killed in Sudan Strikes Blamed on Paramilitary RSF

The latest violence follows six consecutive days of RSF drone strikes targeting Port Sudan, the army-led government’s wartime capital, damaging key infrastructure including the power grid.

On Friday evening, 14 members of a single family were killed in an airstrike on the Abu Shouk displacement camp in Darfur, according to a volunteer rescue group. The RSF has reportedly shelled the camp multiple times in recent weeks. Located near El-Fasher—the last state capital in Darfur not under RSF control—Abu Shouk is home to thousands displaced by the conflict and is now also facing famine conditions, according to the United Nations.

Nearby Zamzam camp, once sheltering nearly one million people, was seized by RSF forces in April following a devastating offensive that largely emptied the area.

In a separate attack Saturday, at least 19 people were killed and 45 wounded when an RSF drone strike hit a prison in El-Obeid, the army-held capital of North Kordofan state, medical sources confirmed.

The conflict began as a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. It has since evolved into what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, effectively splitting Sudan: the army controls the north, east, and center, while the RSF and its allies dominate Darfur and much of the south.