News - Middle East: Tensions have escalated in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, with local sources reporting an airstrike in the city’s southern region that claimed the lives of at least 20 civilians including two children.

“The death toll from the aerial bombardment in southern Khartoum has risen to 20 civilians,” the neighborhood’s resistance committee said in a statement on Sunday.
In an earlier statement, it also noted that additional fatalities may have gone unreported due to the severe injuries sustained during the bombing, making it impossible to move some victims to hospitals.
The neighborhood's resistance committee is among several volunteer organizations initially dedicated to organizing pro-democracy demonstrations, but now provides assistance to families caught in the crossfire between the military and paramilitary factions in Sudan.
The airstrike was part of the ongoing war between the Sudanese regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that started in mid-April after tensions heightened over a power struggle between army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who now commands the RSF.
Burhan accused the RSF of aiming “to take the country back to an era before the modern state” and “committing every crime that can be imagined.” In the meantime, the RSF has accused the army of trying to seize full power under the direction of loyalists of Omar al-Bashir, the former ruler who was toppled during a popular uprising in 2019.