Nyala's civilians have been caught in the crossfire. Satellite images from the Sudan Conflict Observatory, a U.S.-based monitoring platform, show damage to public buildings including a market and hospital.
Prior to the incident, the United Nations said that at least 60 people had been killed in Nyala in one week in August. "Most people have left Nyala. The rest either don't have enough money to leave, or say they're guarding their homes," said Zeinab Elsadig, 24, a resident who fled last month.Like West Darfur where the war has sparked ethnically targeted killings, South Darfur has been largely cut off from aid, humanitarian workers say.More than half the residents of South Darfur are projected to be at crisis or emergency levels of acute hunger, according to the IPC measure calculated by U.N.
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