Rebel group accused of killing 11 in drone strike in Sudan
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebel group have been accused of causing the deaths of at least 11 people after a drone strike hit a displacement camp in the River Nile State of Sudan.
As reported by Saudi news agency Asharq Al-Awsat on April 26th, the state governor released a statement accusing the rebel group of being behind the attack which he also says took out a regional power station.
Strikes on power stations have led to weeks of blackouts across different regions in the country.
The RSF have denied responsibility for the attack and have refused to offer any further comment.
Masher Hemeidan, a teacher who lived in the camps said that, “this morning we heard a large explosion and we found two families that had been burnt completely inside their tents, while they were sleeping, we had left Khartoum fearful of the war and now the war has followed us here. I don’t know where I will go with my family and children, we have no shelter or place to go to.”
The RSF have repeatedly targeted displacement camps, on April 13th, attacks on two camps led to the deaths of over 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers and it was estimated that around 2,400 displaced residents were forced to flee the camps and seek refuge in the nearby city of el-Fasher in the North Darfur region.
The United Nations have condemned the actions of the RSF, releasing a statement saying that: “The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the repeated attacks on el-Fasher as well as on the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps for internally displaced persons in recent days by the RSF.”
Both the RSF and the Sudanese army have been accused of committing war crimes during the civil war which is now more than two years old.
Asharq Al-Awsat, Maghrebi
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