Khartoum wholesale market: ‘First shelling in months’ kills two

At least two people are dead, and 13 injured, after the Es Soug El Markazi (Central Market) in Khartoum came under artillery bombardment this morning. This is the first time Khartoum city has seen bombardment since the fighting in Khartoum abated.

In a statement via social media, the Southern Belt* Emergency Room says that a shell fell in the city’s wholesale market. Two dead and 13 injured were thus far registered at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in the neighbourhood, but as the situation is still fluid, this might change.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) control most parts of Khartoum city since the beginning of the war. Military operations have declined for more than a week, and on Wednesday. the emergency room announced the partial return of some aid kitchens in southern Khartoum.

They pointed out that the Gadisiya Kitchen in Block 1 is back in business after a hiatus of more than three months due to a shortage of funds.

The charity kitchen provides a daily breakfast meal of red lentils to 360 families in the block.

* Khartoum’s Southern Belt is part of the periphery of the capital inhabited by people earlier displaced by wars in Darfur, Kordofan, and Blue Nile region, South Sudanese refugees, and by impoverished farmers from various parts of the country who lost their lands to banks after failing to pay their debts.