At Least 176 Killed In Two Days Of Sudan Battles

Intense fighting between the army and paramilitary forces in Sudan over the past two days has resulted in at least 176 fatalities and hundreds of injuries, according to reports.

In Omdurman, part of the Sudanese capital, paramilitary shelling killed at least 65 people and wounded hundreds on Tuesday, according to the state's army-aligned governor.

A single shell on a passenger bus "killed everyone on board and turned 22 people into body parts", AFP quoted Khartoum governor Ahmed Othman Hamza as saying.

He attributed the strike to "the terrorist militia", in reference to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army since April 2023.

The attack comes a day after an army air strike on a market in the North Darfur town of Kabkabiya killed over 100 people, the Emergency Lawyers reported Tuesday.

The lawyers also reported six people were killed in North Kordofan state when a drone that had crashed on November 26 exploded.

In the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, paramilitary shelling on Tuesday killed five people, according to civil society group the Darfur General Coordination of Camps for the Displaced and Refugees.

A UN-backed report in July declared famine had taken hold in the camp after a months-long RSF siege of state capital El-Fasher and the surrounding area.

The war between the RSF and the regular army has so far killed tens of thousands, uprooted 12 million and created what the United Nations has called the worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory.

It has also nearly destroyed Khartoum, control over which both sides have not managed to claim.

Most of Omdurman -- the capital's twin city across the Nile -- is under army control, while the RSF holds Khartoum North (Bahri) to the east.