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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

RSF Brutal Attacks in Sudan Massacres, Power Strikes and Civilian Casualties

Published on: 28 April, 2025
Sudanese people rest at a camp centre beside the Coral Garden Hotel as they call for evacuation to safe countries, following the crisis in Sudan's capital Khartoum, in Port Sudan. [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters]

Sudanese people rest at a camp centre beside the Coral Garden Hotel as they call for evacuation to safe countries, following the crisis in Sudan's capital Khartoum, in Port Sudan. [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters]

The Sudan Doctors Network stated on Sunday, reporting that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had carried out the largest documented massacre, executing 31 individuals in Al Salha, Khartoum State. On the same day, the RSF and local activists published images on social media showing mass executions of unarmed civilians. The RSF claimed that those killed were members of the Sudanese Army.

On Sunday morning, RSF drones targeted a transformer power station in the town of Berber, located 40 kilometers north of Atbara in River Nile State, northern Sudan. This attack followed a similar strike a day earlier, when RSF drones targeted the Atbara power transformer station, which supplies electricity to both the River Nile and Red Sea states, causing power outages in both regions.

On Saturday, an entire family of seven, including a child, was killed, and seven other civilians, including a woman and a medical worker, were injured in artillery shelling by the RSF, which targeted parts of El Fasher. The Military Media of the Sudanese Army’s 6th Infantry Division confirmed this in a press statement.

The Sudanese Army and RSF have been engaged in the struggle for control over the past two years, with fighting currently concentrated in the Darfur region and on the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum.

On Friday, 11 people were killed in Atbara, River Nile State, after an RSF drone shelled a camp for displaced people.

Al Jazeera.