Battles War crimes Humanitarian crisis Other On 1 February 2025, 56 people were killed and 158 more wounded after massive amounts of shelling perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) affected a market in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman.

[3] The War in Sudan began on 15 April 2023, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attempted to overthrow the Sudanese government led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

[4][5] The coup attempt plunged the Sudanese capital Khartoum and its two sister cities, Omdurman and Bahri, into grueling urban warfare.

Before the attacks, the Sudanese Armed Forces had begun launching offensives to capture territory in and out of the capital of Khartoum around the end of December 2024 to January 2025.

[1] The Rapid Support Forces shelled the Sabreen Market and a number of neighborhoods in the Al-Thawra area in the Karari locality, north of Omdurman, west of the capital Khartoum.