Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed six people on Wednesday in a joint drone and artillery attack on the besieged western city of El-Fasher, a medical worker told AFP.

"Another 10 people were injured" in the attack on the city's Al-Daraja neighbourhood, the medic said from a local clinic, requesting anonymity because health workers have been routinely targeted in Sudan's nearly 30-month war.

Since April 2023, the RSF's war with Sudan's regular army has killed thousands of people and created the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis.

The United Nations has said El-Fasher city is the "epicentre of child suffering" where nearly 40% of those under the age of five are acutely or severely malnourished after 16 months of an RSF siege.

Drone attacks

Civilians and the army have been encircled into progressively diminishing territory, with the RSF controlling all movement in and out of the city.

This week, the military said it successfully delivered an airdrop of supplies to its 6th Division infantry headquarters inside the city.

The RSF this week published videos purportedly placing them less than a kilometre (mile) away from the military base.

Last month, an RSF drone strike on a mosque in the Al-Daraja neighbourhood killed more than 75 people.

In May, drone strikes targeted the army-aligned government's city of Port Sudan, on the other side of the country on the Red Sea coast.