At least 40 killed in Sudan shelling | BBC News

Pro-democracy activists in Sudan claim that about 40people were killed in "violent artillery fire" when theparamilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelledKhartoum's twin city of Omdurman.

The RSF are also accused of carrying out a "massacre"on Wednesday, where at least 150 people died. TheRSF has not commented on the accusations.

The fighting that has erupted in the Sudanese capital,Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country is a directresult of a vicious power struggle between the regulararmy and a paramilitary force called the RSF.