<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Sudanese paramilitary forces have killed at least 20 people in an attack on a village south of the capital Khartoum, a local activists’ committee said today.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) “attacked the village of Um Adam” 150km south of the city yesterday, said a statement from the local resistance committee, one of many pro-democracy groups that coordinate aid.</div><div><br></div><div>Sudan’s war between the military, under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, began last April 15.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thousands of people have been killed, including up to 15,000 in a single town in the war-ravaged Darfur region, according to United Nations experts.</div><div><br></div><div>The war has also displaced more than 8.5 million people, practically destroyed Sudan’s already-fragile infrastructure and pushed the country to the brink of famine.</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday’s attack resulted in “over 200 wounded with both serious and minor injuries, and more than 20 martyrs, not all of whom we could tally”, the statement said.</div><div><br></div><div>A medical source at the Manaqil hospital, 80km away, confirmed to AFP that they had “received 200 wounded, some of whom arrived too late”.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re facing a shortage of blood and we don’t have enough medical personnel,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 70% of Sudan’s health facilities are out of service, according to the UN, while those remaining receive many times their capacity and have meagre resources.</div><div><br></div><div>Both sides in the conflict have been accused of war crimes, including targeting civilians, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas and looting and obstructing aid.</div><div><br></div><div>Since taking over Al-Jazira state just south of Khartoum in December, the RSF has laid siege to and attacked entire villages such as Um Adam.</div><div><br></div><div>By March, at least 108 villages and settlements across the country had been set on fire and “partially or completely destroyed”, the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience has found. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>