At least 10 reported killed in shelling of Sudan displacement camp
May 9, 2025 (EL FASHER) – At least 10 people were killed on Friday when artillery shells fired by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the Abushouk camp for displaced people in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, a medical volunteer and local activists said.
Community leaders said the RSF was attempting to displace the remaining inhabitants of the camp, located in northern El Fasher, through daily artillery bombardments. These attacks, they said, have killed many displaced individuals, forced more than 80% of the camp’s original population of over 500,000 to flee, and destroyed dozens of homes, water sources, and hospitals.
“Ten members of one family were killed today when an artillery shell fired by the Rapid Support Forces landed inside a shelter the family had built in their home,” a medical volunteer in Abushouk told the Sudan Tribune news outlet.
Many residents of Abushouk camp and El Fasher city have dug underground shelters to protect themselves from shelling and drone attacks, residents said. Nevertheless, they added that civilians continue to die daily from what they described as indiscriminate bombardments.
Separately, the El Fasher Resistance Committees Coordination said in a statement that the city had endured a “new wave of heavy artillery shelling” over the past three days. It said shells struck residential neighbourhoods intensively, causing fatalities.
The statement added that dozens of injured people lacked even minimal medical care amid a “near-total collapse” of services.
“The sounds of artillery are no longer surprising to the city’s residents, but this time they carry a double burden amid economic deterioration, a suffocating siege, difficult living conditions, empty markets, scarce water, no electricity, and missing medicine,” the Resistance Committees’ statement said. “Yet, despite all this, our people remain resilient.”
Local sources said the RSF has tightened its siege on El Fasher this year, displacing residents from villages surrounding the city and from the Zamzam camp. They also accused the RSF of destroying medical facilities, water sources, and main markets, leading to severe shortages of goods.