The army today bombed the paramilitaries in Khartoumthe day after 20 civilians, including two children, were killed in an airstrike on a residential area, according to residents and militants.

“The toll of airstrikes in the Kalakla district rose to 20 civilian deaths,” the district’s “resistance committee,” one of the pro-democracy organizations that have been organizing mutual aid among residents since the start of the war in April, said today.

Already yesterday, Saturday, the commission reported that “11 civilian dead including two children and a woman” were in the morgue of one of the last hospitals still operating in the capital, adding that “many charred and dismembered bodies from the bombing” could not be transferred.

The war, which broke out on April 15 between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RAF) paramilitaries, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has caused 5,000 deaths, according to an NGO count. Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), which is considered far below reality, and 4.8 million displaced and refugees, according to the UN.

In Khartoum, the fighting is concentrated in densely populated districts where for nearly five months millions of residents have lived through water and electricity cuts in sweltering heat, barricaded in their homes to protect themselves from crossfire.

Today, residents told the French News Agency (AFP) of “army artillery and rocket fire at DTY positions” in the northern suburbs of the capital.

More than one in two Sudanese need humanitarian aid to survive, and six million of them are on the brink of starvation, humanitarian organizations warn.

Fighting and famine threaten to “take over” Sudan and plunge the region into humanitarian disaster, says the UN, which has received only a quarter of its funding pledges and is facing bureaucratic problems channeling aid.