Bombing of Kabkabiya and the airport at Nyala part of an escalating campaign targeting RSF-controlled territory across Darfur

A Sudanese army air strike on a market in North Darfur on Monday has left more than 100 people dead, according to a legal group monitoring the war in Sudan.

The Emergency Lawyers group said on Tuesday that strikes on a market in Kabkabiya, a town about 180km west of el-Fasher in the vast western region of Sudan, had injured hundreds more.

Kabkabiya is controlled by the army’s enemy, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and the attack on the market is part of an escalating campaign by the army targeting RSF-held territory in North Darfur.