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Several parts of the city including the main market have been
targeted by RSF artillery fire, said Emergency Lawyers, which
has monitored civilian deaths and other humanitarian violations.
The progress of the RSF, which already controls most of Sennar
and at least half of the country, has slowed in the southeast as
heavy rains have made movement difficult.
Its war with Sudan's army has created the world's largest hunger
and internal displacement crises, killing tens of thousands of
civilians and destroying most of Sudan's infrastructure and
economy.
Emergency Lawyers said the army had killed at least four people
in al-Souki, a town near Sennar, during airstrikes. The RSF
killed one person and wounded 17 in artillery strikes on
el-Obeid, another town it has struggled to assert full control
of.
Both sides in Sudan's 18-month-old civil war have committed
abuses that may amount to war crimes, a U.N.-mandated mission
said on Friday, calling for peacekeepers and a country-wide arms
embargo.
On Saturday, Sudan's army-aligned foreign ministry rejected both
recommendations, calling the idea of international peacekeepers
"the wish of Sudan's enemies and it will not be fulfilled."
(Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir, Editing by
Timothy Heritage)
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