Rockets Hits Sudanese Capital

Rockets pummeled the Sudanese capital on Thursday, as paramilitaries attacked a key air force base north of Khartoum and claimed to have killed and wounded dozens of soldiers.

Residents reported that heavy artillery shelling and fighter jets overhead the northwest of the city, while drones belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked the Wadi Seidna air base.

The RSF said in a statement that it had destroyed three fighter jets, as well as stores of weapons, military equipment and supplies, adding that its forces had killed dozens.

Since April 15, Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been locked in a war with his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

The fight, concentrated in Khartoum and the western region of Darfur has killed more than 3,900 people and displaced more than 3.3 million.