PORT SUDAN, Sudan, Oct 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A drone strike by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed eight people in a maternity ward in the besieged city of El-Fasher, a medical source told AFP on Wednesday.

The attack, which occurred on Tuesday, also injured seven people in El-Fasher Hospital and "damaged buildings and equipment", the health worker said on condition of anonymity for their safety.

It is the latest strike on healthcare facilities since the start of the war in Sudan in April 2023, between the RSF and the regular Sudanese army.

El-Fasher Hospital is one of the last functioning health facilities in the North Darfur state capital, where the paramilitary is waging its fiercest assault on the city yet.

El-Fasher is the only major city in the vast western region of Darfur the RSF has not yet seized, despite besieging the city since May 2024.

The UN has called El-Fasher "the epicentre of child suffering", where mass starvation has taken hold and even the animal feed families have survived on now costs hundreds of dollars a sack.

The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people and created the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis.