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Dozens killed near Sudan’s capital as UN warns of soaring displacement

Displaced Sudanese families wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in the city of Omdurman on April 6 [El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters]

Pro-democracy activists in Sudan say about 40 people have been killed in “violent artillery fire” by paramilitary forces in the twin city of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as fighting and displacement intensify across the war-ravaged country.

The Karari Resistance Committee, one of hundreds of grassroots organisations that coordinate aid across Sudan, said on Friday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group was behind the deadly attack on Omdurman a day earlier.

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