Local security conflict

An attack by Sudanese paramilitaries and their allied rebels in the central region of Kordofan killed at least 14 people, including five children and two women, a medical group said Sunday, in the latest deadly assault of the Sudan war.
The Rapid Support Forces and their allies in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North launched a major offensive on Saturday on Dilling, the capital of South Kordofan province.
The military, which recently broke the RSF siege on the city, said it fended off the attack.
The Sudan Doctors Network, a group tracking the war, said the RSF and their allies shelled residential areas in the city amid dire humanitarian conditions.
It said the hourslong attack wounded at least 23 others, including seven more children in addition to those killed.
Dilling experienced faminelike conditions after more than two years of siege under the RSF during which the paramilitaries cut off supplies and frequently bombed the area.
The military broke the siege earlier this year.