Hommam Al Nassim 
Sporadic clashes broke out between the Sudanese army and its allies in the Joint Force on the one hand, and the Rapid Support Forces on the other hand, in several areas of the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in western Sudan, resulting in deaths and injuries.
Local sources reported that Sudanese army aircraft carried out an airdrop to support the 6th Infantry Division in the city of El Fasher. Intermittent clashes also renewed between the Sudanese army and its allies in the joint force on the one hand, and between the Rapid Support Forces in the city, in which both sides used heavy weapons.
Local sources reported that the Rapid Support Forces bombed the southern side of El Fasher with heavy artillery.
For its part, the Coordination of Resistance Committees in El Fasher confirmed that civilians were killed and wounded in the Rapid Support Forces’ bombing of residential neighborhoods near the army command, the city’s main market, and the southeastern neighborhoods.
The joint force of the armed movements fighting alongside the Sudanese army said that it pursued the Rapid Support Forces in the northern axis of the city of El Fasher this morning but denied that any of its members had reached the market area.
Local sources said that a Rapid Support force killed 9 people north of the city of El Fasher while they were escaping with their families from the raging battles in the city, towards the Mellit and Katum area.
The same sources added that Sudanese army fighters launched strikes late last night on Rapid Support Forces concentrations east of the city.
She also said that a number of the city’s residents evacuated their wounded from the only operating hospital in Al-Fasher South in the city due to the increased intensity of indiscriminate shelling on the hospital, the fall of shells inside it, and the wounding of the wounded and their companions.
Sudan is facing the largest displacement crisis in its history