State of Red Sea, Sudan —
A local doctors’ group said on Sunday that at least 28 people had been slain by Sudanese paramilitary troops in a raid on a community south of the capital, Khartoum.

The Sudan Doctors Committee said in a statement that on Saturday, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conducted a “massacre” in “the village of Um Adam,” 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of the city.

The conflict in Sudan erupted on 15 April between army head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who led the RSF.

UN experts estimate that thousands of people have died in the war-torn Darfur region, with as many as 15,000 murdered in one town alone.

In addition, the conflict has forced more than 8.5 million people from their homes, nearly decimated Sudan’s already flimsy infrastructure, and brought the nation dangerously close to starvation.

The incident on Saturday “resulted in the killing (of) at least 28 innocent villagers and more than 240 people wounded,” according to the committee.

Because of the fighting and the difficulty in getting to medical facilities, it was also stated that “there are a number of dead and wounded in the village that we were not able to count”.

War crimes involving the deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, looting, and obstruction of help have been levelled against both sides of the fight.

Um Adam is only one of the numerous villages that the RSF has attacked and besieged since capturing Al-Jazira state, which is located south of Khartoum, in December.

The U.K.-based Centre for Information Resilience discovered that by March, at least 108 villages and settlements nationwide had been burned and “partially or completely destroyed.”