CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations on Tuesday condemned an attack by a paramilitary group on a famine-hit displacement camp in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing at least 40 people.

Monday’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, on the Abu Shouk camp outside el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province, also wounded 19 others, according to the Emergency Response Rooms, an activist group that tracks Sudan’s civil war .

“Once again, civilians are paying the highest price in this conflict,” Sheldon Yett, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said in a statement. “Displacement camps and other places of refuge for civilians must not be targeted.”

Abu-Shouk is one of two camps for displaced people outside el-Fasher , the military’s last stronghold in

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