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Cairo– <\/span>At least 14 people, including five children and two women, were killed in an attack by Sudanese paramilitaries and their allied rebels in the central region of Kordofan, a medical group said on Sunday. Sudan war.<\/a><\/p>\n Rapid Support Forces and their allies in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North launched a major attack on Dilling, the capital of South Kordofan province, on Saturday. The army, which had recently broken an RSF siege of the city, said it defended the attack.<\/p>\n Sudan Doctors Network, a war-monitoring group, said the RSF and their allies shelled residential areas in the city amid dire humanitarian conditions. It said at least 23 others were injured in the hours-long attack, including seven children besides those killed.<\/p>\n Dilling experienced famine-like conditions after more than two years of siege under the RSF, during which paramilitaries cut off supplies and frequently bombed the area. The army had broken the siege earlier this year.<\/p>\n The doctors’ group warned of a potentially “catastrophic scenario” similar to the one that had developed in the Darfur town of al-Fashar. The RSF attacked the area in October in what UN experts say was an attack “Signs of Genocide.”<\/a><\/p>\n More than 6,000 people were killed in al-Fashar over three days, when the RSF unleashed a “wave of intense violence… shocking in its scale and brutality”. a report<\/a> From the United Nations Human Rights Office.<\/p>\n Sudan descended into chaos in April 2023 when the power struggle in Khartoum between the army and the RSF escalated into open warfare.<\/p>\n