By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 19:53 EAT on Tuesday 25 March 2025

A Sudanese war monitor has accused the military of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country’s western Darfur region.

The Emergency Lawyers group – which documents abuses by both sides in Sudan’s civil war that erupted in April 2023 – said the bombing of Tur’rah market was a “horrific massacre” that had also left hundreds injured.

A military spokesperson denied targeting civilians, saying it only attacked legitimate hostile targets.

Both the Sudanese armed forces and RSF have repeatedly been accused of shelling civilian areas.

The RSF has deployed drones in Darfur, but the army has the warplanes – and regularly strikes RSF positions across the region.

A Darfur activist group – the Darfur Initiative for Justice and Peace – said it happened on Monday and called it the “deadliest single bombing since the beginning of the war”.

Civilian deaths in bombing and shelling attacks have intensified in recent months with the escalation of fighting in the country’s brutal civil conflict.

Some 12 million Sudanese people have fled their homes since war broke out – that is equivalent to Belgium or Tunisia’s entire population.

Famine has taken hold and starvation is widespread, the UN says, with over half the country experiencing “high levels of acute food insecurity”.

Estimates vary, but it is said that at least 150,000 people have been killed by the fighting.

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