Sudan activists blame notorious group for Omdurman attack in which at
least 30 people killed
[April 29, 2025]
By SAMY MAGDY
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group killed at least 30
people in an attack on Omdurman, the sister city of the capital,
Khartoum, the authorities and an activist group said on Monday.
Rapid Support Forces are alleged to have kidnapped dozens of people,
including women, from Salha, an area in the southern part of Omdurman on
Sunday morning, according to the Resistance Committees activist group.
It is the latest incident in a series of deadly attacks by the group
this month.
Footage circulated online showed fighters wearing RSF uniforms holding
dozens of men — some half-naked — in an open area, with bodies lying on
the ground.
In a statement, the RSF didn’t deny the killing, but sought to distance
itself from the perpetrators, saying those who appeared in the footage
“are not affiliated with our forces in any way whatsoever.”
The Sudan War Monitor, an online group tracking the conflict, said it
geolocated the video footage to about five kilometers (three miles)
south of Omdurman Islamic University, which remains a frontline area
controlled by the RSF.
The foreign ministry on Monday condemned the attacks and called for the
international community to declare the RSF as a terrorist organisation.
“This heinous crime, and the militia’s rhetoric about it, which reflects
its contempt for human values, leave no justification for not branding
the militia as a terrorist group,” a ministry statement said.
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The military has regained control of most of the northern and
western areas of Omdurman as part of its sweeping advances in recent
months in Khartoum and other urban areas. The RSF still has pockets
in the southern part of Omdurman.
The attack was the latest in Sudan’s ongoing war which broke out in
April 2023 after simmering tensions between the military and the RSF
exploded into open warfare across the country.
Since then, at least 24,000 people have been killed, though the
number is likely far higher. The war has driven about 13 million
people from their homes, including four million crossed into
neighboring countries. It also pushed parts of the country into
famine.
The fighting has been marked by atrocities including mass rape and
ethnically motivated killings that amount to war crimes and crimes
against humanity, especially in Darfur, according to the U.N. and
international rights groups.
Earlier this month, the RSF and its allied militias launched a major
multi-day attack on the city of el-Fasher and the Zamzam and Abu
Shouk camps for displaced people in North Darfur province, killing
more than than 400 people, according to the United Nations.
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