In Sudan, an airstrike kills ten people in the south of Khartoum

Ten Sudanese civilians were killed and more than thirty injured in an army airstrike on southern Khartoum, according to volunteer rescuers. The strike on Sunday January 5 targeted a market in the southern belt of the capital “for the third time in less than a month”said a manager at the local emergency response room, part of a network of volunteers across the country coordinating front-line aid.

He said the victims were burned alive and the injured taken to the local Bashair Hospital suffered from burns. Five of them are in critical condition.

Since April 2023, the war between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed tens of thousands of people. In the capital alone, violence left at least 26,000 dead between April 2023 and June 2024, according to a report from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Khartoum has seen some of the worst violence of the war, with entire neighborhoods emptied and taken over by fighters. According to United Nations figures, of the 11.5 million people currently displaced in Sudan, almost a third have fled the capital. The Rapid Support Forces and the army have been repeatedly accused of targeting civilians and indiscriminately bombing populated areas.