February 8, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – Activists reported on Saturday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) detained two volunteers from the South Belt Emergency Room at Bashair Hospital in southern Khartoum. The arrests come days after the RSF took volunteer Hatem Al-Daw, raising concerns that his continued detention could endanger patients’ lives as he coordinates and supports humanitarian work inside Bashair Hospital. The South Belt Emergency Room, in a statement received by Sudan Tribune, said that “the RSF, under the threat of weapons, took Hashim Taif and Mohamed Abdallah Mardoem from inside Bashair Hospital.” The statement added that the RSF is conducting a comprehensive search of all room members and calling on them to be extremely cautious. The RSF has repeatedly stormed Bashair Hospital, the only functioning hospital in southern Khartoum, prompting Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the facility, to withdraw. Areas of southern Khartoum suffer from insecurity and high food prices. In contrast, the army’s advance into the area raises fears of abuses by its allies against volunteers who both sides of the conflict have targeted. According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 57 volunteers in emergency rooms have been killed since the conflict erupted on April …

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