About 260,000 civilians, half of them children, are trapped in the besieged city, cut off from food, water, and medical supplies by an advancing paramilitary, notorious for ethnic cleansing.

The airstrike on one of the last major markets left with stocks in the North Darfur will likely accelerate the famine spreading in the state since last August.

Earlier major armed attacks by the Janjaweed militias in the last week of April had targeted West Darfur’s Kereinik town and the capital city of El Geneina, killing at least 200 and displacing around 100,000