{"id":296388,"date":"2025-03-25T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T09:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=296388"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T09:21:19","slug":"sudan-army-strike-on-darfur-market-kills-hundreds-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=296388","title":{"rendered":"Sudan army strike on Darfur market kills hundreds: monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2025\/03\/25\/image-258023-1742893539.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Sudanese war monitor accused the army of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country&#8217;s western Darfur region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Emergency Lawyers group of volunteer legal professionals who have documented atrocities on both sides of Sudan&#8217;s nearly two-year war said army warplanes carried out &#8220;an indiscriminate air strike on Tora market in North Darfur, killing hundreds of civilians and seriously wounding dozens&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It did not specify when the strike occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The army, which has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the conflict since April 2023, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RSF, which controls nearly all of Darfur where the United States has accused it of committing genocide, said the army had committed the &#8220;massacre&#8221; on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted more than 12 million and created the world&#8217;s largest hunger and displacement crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darfur, a vast region the size of France, has faced some of the war&#8217;s worst violence, including reports of barrel bombs on civilian areas, paramilitary attacks on famine-hit displacement camps and rampant ethnic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the paramilitary has deployed highly equipped drones in Darfur, the army retains the advantage in the skies with its warplanes, regularly striking RSF positions across the region. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Sudanese war monitor accused the army of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country&#8217;s western Darfur region. The Emergency Lawyers group of volunteer legal professionals who have documented atrocities on both sides of Sudan&#8217;s nearly two-year war said army warplanes carried out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":296389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296390,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296388\/revisions\/296390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}