Five Children, 12 Others Killed In Sudan Air Strikes
Published on June 19, 2023 at 11:08 AM by Evance Kapito
Seventeen people – five children – have been killed in an air strike in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, officials say.
Twenty-five homes were destroyed in Saturday’s strike in the densely populated Yarmouk district.
It came a day after a top army general threatened to step up attacks against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the RSF broke out mid-April as a result of a vicious power struggle within the country’s military leadership.
Roughly 2.2 million people have been displaced within the country and more than half a million are sheltering in neighboring countries, according to the UN.
