Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shells presidential palace in Khartoum

Trucks carrying World Food Program (WFP) meals help arrive in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan April 27, 2025. WFP is scaling up emergency meals and diet help to 1 million individuals throughout all seven localities in higher Khartoum.
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shelled the presidential palace in Khartoum on Thursday (May 1, 2025) in their second bombardment of the capital in lower than every week, a military supply mentioned.

The paramilitaries fired long-range artillery on the palace from the Al-Salha district throughout the White Nile, their closest place for the reason that military recaptured Khartoum in March, the supply advised AFP on situation of anonymity.

There have been no rapid stories of any casualties from the shelling, which adopted an identical bombardment of the military’s General Command headquarters in Khartoum on Saturday.

The paramilitaries have been at battle with the common military since April 2023. The battle has killed tens of hundreds of individuals and uprooted 13 million.

Since its lack of Khartoum in April, the RSF has targeted on consolidating its management of the huge western area of Darfur, the place the besieged metropolis of El-Fasher is the final main inhabitants centre nonetheless in the military’s fingers.

The RSF mentioned on Thursday it had captured the desert city of El-Nuhud in West Kordofan state, a key staging submit on the highway to Darfur.

Witnesses advised AFP that the paramilitaries entered the city in early morning from the north and west.

In a video shared on Telegram, an RSF spokesman mentioned fighters had “liberated” the city, 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of El-Fasher.

There was no rapid phrase from the military.

If confirmed, the lack of the city would complicate the military’s efforts to alleviate its besieged garrison in El-Fasher.

Any aid convoy from central Sudan for the troops and allied militia below RSF assault in El-Fasher would want to move via El-Nuhud.

Exodus of a whole lot of hundreds of displaced civilians

The RSF has stepped up its assault on El-Fasher in latest weeks, overrunning two close by displacement camps and pounding town with artillery bombardments.

The paramilitaries’ advance prompted an exodus of a whole lot of hundreds of displaced civilians from the camps the place they’d already endured months of famine.

In the previous three weeks, at the very least 542 civilians have been confirmed killed in North Darfur, the United Nations mentioned on Thursday.

“The horror unfolding in Sudan knows no bounds,” UN human rights chief Volker Turk mentioned in a press release

Further east, RSF drones struck a military base in the southern metropolis of Kosti, a witness advised AFP.

The witness reported “loud explosions” as 4 missiles hit the bottom in White Nile state and the military responded with anti-aircraft hearth.

The battle has successfully break up Sudan in two with the military holding the north, east and centre whereas the RSF controls practically all the west and swathes of the south.