On August 11, 2025, Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), backed and armed by the United Arab Emirates, launched an attack on the Abu Shouk displacement camp in North Darfur near the city of el-Fasher. The camp, home to approximately 200,000 displaced people and suffering from famine, was targeted amid ongoing fighting in the region. Emergency responders and local rights groups reported that the assault resulted in the deaths of at least 40 civilians, with victims shot both inside their homes and in public areas. The United Nations expressed deep alarm over the large-scale attack, which also left 19 people injured. This incident adds to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, already exacerbated by a brutal civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF that has lasted nearly two and a half years, killing tens of thousands and displacing over 14 million people, more than a quarter of Sudan's population. In April, the UAE-armed RSF was also responsible for a massacre of more than 1,500 civilians at Sudan’s largest displacement camp, marking one of the deadliest war crimes in the conflict. Meanwhile, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tensions persist with the M23 rebel group accused of violating a ceasefire and carrying out attacks that killed over 300 civilians last month, including a drone strike in South Kivu province that killed at least 11 civilians.