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UN warns Sudan faces 'full-scale civil war' as air raid kills 22

The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are fighting against the regular army in a conflict that has killed around 3,000 people.

WAD MADANI, Sudan: Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a "full-scale civil war" that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians.

The Ministry of Health reported "22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians" from what it described as an air strike Saturday on Khartoum's sister city Omdurman, in the district of Dar al-Salam, which means "House of Peace" in Arabic.

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