At least 57 civilians were killed during clashes between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces, as well as paramilitary bombings on the city of al Fasher in Darfur (west), a medical source and local activists said Thursday.

The violence occurred on Wednesday, they specified. After losing the capital Khartoum, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) focused their attacks on Darfur to try to seize al Fasher, the last provincial capital in this region that has eluded them.