[AFRICANEWS] Ten non-combatants were killed and 11 injured Tuesday in Khartoum in a bombardment by paramilitary forces that hit homes, a mosque and a medical center, activists said.
According to a local resistance committee, one of the groups that organize mutual aid between residents in the country at war, "shells fell in the al-Samrab district, in the north of Khartoum".
"Shells hit houses, a mosque and a medical centre," this source told AFP by telephone in Port Sudan
 ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, in the east of the country. "Ten non-combatants were killed and 11 injured in the bombardment carried out by the Rapid Security Forces (RSF)," she added.
Started on April 15, the war between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhane and the FSR of Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, two generals fighting for power, left around 7,500 dead, according to an estimate by the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. This assessment is nevertheless considered to be largely underestimated due to the difficulties of access in the field.
The conflict has also left more than five million displaced and refugees and worsened the humanitarian and health crisis in the country, one of the poorest in the world now ravaged by dengue and cholera.
So far, all diplomatic efforts undertaken by several parties, including the United States and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, have failed to end the fighting.
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