The Government of Sudan has said at least 450 internally displaced persons (IDPs), including women, children, and aid workers have been killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in three days.

According to a statement issued by the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday, the RSF carried out coordinated attacks on civilian settlements and IDP camps, particularly the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps in and around the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State.

The recent killing coincides with the second anniversary of the conflict in Sudan where
24.6 million people, about half the population, are experiencing acute food insecurity, with 638,000 facing catastrophic hunger.

The ministry accused the RSF of targeting residential neighbourhoods and humanitarian facilities, resulting in the deaths of nine aid workers and medical personnel, alongside hundreds of civilians.
Media officer at the Embassy of Sudan in Nigeria, Almoiz Mohamed, told The Guardian that nine world relief workers were executed inside their offices in Zamzam camp in addition to thousands of civilians that are wounded, some of them critically ill.

According to him, thousands have marched towards the city of El Fasher on foot where they face complex humanitarian conditions in the absence of the simple elements of life, including food, drink and medicine.

He said: “The ongoing barbaric attacks by the rebel FSF on displacement camps in the outskirts of the city of El Fasher is nothing but reprisal campaigns by the Rapid Support Militia in desperate attempts to heal their yields due to the crushing and successive defeats that they continued to receive from the armed forces and joint forces on the outskirts of the city of El Fasher, which the militia failed to invade through more than 200 waves of repeated attacks for more than a year, during which the rebels suffered heavy losses in lives, lives and equipment.

“However, the targeting of displacement camps and citizens inside the city of El Fasher by the Dagalo terrorist militia remains a blatant criminal acts.They have been committing these crimes and atrocities through assistance given by the regional and international supporters. The Sudanese Armed Forces is committed to lift the siege on Fasher al-Sultan, and defeat the rebel Rapid Support Militia.”

Describing the RSF as a terrorist militia, the Sudanese government called on the international community, including regional and global organisations, to categorically condemn the atrocities and take decisive action.

Sudan further demanded that the RSF and its alleged foreign sponsors be held accountable, urging international actors to cease the supply of arms, ammunition, and mercenaries to the militia.