Attacks on Dilling add to death toll exceeding 100 since early December as Sudan’s war shifts to strategic central region.At least 16 people have been killed in an artillery bombardment of a besieged city in Sudan’s embattled Kordofan region, adding to a mounting civilian death toll as the country’s brutal civil war enters a critical phase deep into its third year.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) shelled residential areas of Dilling in South Kordofan over the past two days into Friday, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, a medical monitoring group.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listWomen, elderly residents and children were among those killed in what the group condemned as the deliberate targeting of civilians.The attack on Dilling is part of an escalating campaign of violence across Kordofan that has killed more than 100 civilians since early December, as fighting in Sudan’s war has shifted from the western Darfur region to the strategic central heartland, where the conflict’s outcome will be decisively affected.The Sudan Doctors Network called on the international community to pressure both armed groups to immediately halt attacks on civilian areas and ensure humanitarian access to those trapped by the fighting.The bombardment has increased the crippling strain on health facilities already overwhelmed by cholera and dengue fever outbreaks in a city that has endured a siege lasting more than two years.More than 50,000 people have fled violence across Kordofan’s three states since late October, when the RSF captured a major army base and intensified operations in the region, according to the International Organization for Migration. Advertisement Some 710 people have been displaced from Dilling alone during this per …
