Sudan shelling kills more than 100 civilians near capital

According to a local volunteer network, the Ombada Emergency Response Room, at least 120 people are reported to have been killed in random shelling earlier this week in the Dar-Salam area of the Sudanese city of Omdurman, across the Nile from the capital, Khartoum. Rescuers say medical supplies are running low as health workers struggle to treat large numbers of people with injuries from bombardments.

Sudan's civil war, now 21 months old, has killed tens of thousands, uprooted over 12 million and pushed the country to the brink of famine, in what the UN describes as one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters.