At least eight people were killed Tuesday when a drone strike by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit a maternity ward in the besieged city of el-Fasher, a medical source told AFP on Wednesday.
The RSF is currently waging its fiercest assault ever on el-Fasher in an attempt to wrest control of the city away from its rivals, the regular army.
Since April 2023, the war between the two forces has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and pushed nearly 25 million people into acute hunger.
Activists say el-Fasher, the last state capital in the vast western Darfur region to elude the paramilitary's grasp, has become "an open-air morgue" for starved civilians.
Tuesday's deadly strike on el-Fasher Hospital also injured seven people and "damaged buildings and equipment," the health worker said on condition of anonymity out of fear for their safety.
