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RSF accuses Sudan army of bombing French Embassy

 Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group has accused the country’s army of “air-bombing the French embassy” in the capital city.

In a long post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the RSF said the alleged bombing caused “sub­stantial damage to the facility”.

“The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) vehemently denounces the indiscriminate aerial attack on the French embassy,” it said.

“This ruthless act is a breach of international conventions, norms, and laws. We urgently call upon the international communi­ty to condemn this atrocity.”

Neither Sudan’s army nor France commented on the alle­gation.

The six-month-long war be­tween the RSF and the army has killed 9,000 people and displaced nearly six million others, accord­ing to the UN.

In April, a French national was wounded in an attack on a con­voy that the warring sides blamed on each other.

Meanwhile, the RSF said yesterday that it had killed more than 500 soldiers in an attack on a military convoy in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, includ­ing “volunteers recently recruited by the army”. —BBC

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