In a statement, the RSF claimed it had “extended control over the city of El-Fasher from the grip of mercenaries and militias,” referring to the Sudanese army, which it has been fighting since April 2023. AFP could not independently verify the claim and the army and its allies did not respond to requests for comment.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday arrested journalist Moamar Ibrahim, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. Ibrahim was the only journalist filing daily television reports from inside the besieged city.

The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement that the RSF shelling of the El-Fasher Teaching Hospital left a nurse dead and injured three medical staff members. It denounced the attack as a “war crime, a clear violation of international humanitarian law, and part of ongoing RSF assaults on civilians and the healthcare sector in Darfur.”

ALBAWABA - Sudanese people inside Al Fashir have been facing acute hunger and starvation after being placed under the control of the Rapid Support Force

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have targeted Sudan’s capital Khartoum and its main airport with drones, a day after the first passenger flight in two years landed in the city amid the civil war.

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday expanded their drone attacks to Sinja, the capital of Sennar state, for the first time, striking a power station and causing an outage, official sources said.