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SUDAN’S Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has accused the Sudanese military of attacking a hospital in the centre of the capital Khartoum with warplanes.

A statement from the paramilitary group on Monday said the attacks “killed and injured dozens of innocent people.”

The East Nile Hospital was the target of attacks earlier this month.

The renewed attacks put an agreement reached last week between the parties to the conflict in jeopardy.

Earlier, both sides had promised to protect civilians and allow humanitarian aid to reach them.

Sudan’s de facto president, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is wrestling for power with the army’s support against his deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, who heads the paramilitary unit RSF.

The two generals previously seized control in Sudan through joint military coups.

However, a rift over power sharing flared into open fighting on April 15 in the country of 46 million inhabitants.

The aid organisation CARE warned the conflict warned health care is severely limited, especially in Khartoum.

Almost two thirds of the city’s health centres are still completely closed , only one in six is currently operating normally.

“We are calling for unhindered humanitarian access in all parts of the country and a general ceasefire,” said David Macdonald, CARE’s Country Director in Sudan.

He added that the ongoing fighting was also putting the coming harvest, and subsequently the country’s food supply, at risk. (dpa/NAN)

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