Sunday 04 / May / 2025
At least seven people were killed and 20 more were injured after a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in South Sudan was bombed on Saturday.
Known by its French initials MSF, the medical charity said that all of its supplies had been destroyed.
South Sudan has experienced renewed conflict in recent months following the collapse of a power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and First Vice-President Riek Machar, threatening a return of civil-war.
South Sudan hospital served 40,000 people
The hospital is situated in a northern town known as Old Fangak, around 475 kilometers (295 miles) outside of the capital, Juba.
"At 4 a.m. today, MSF's hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan, was bombed," MSF said in a statement.
"The pharmacy was destroyed. All medical supplies lost. There are reports of people killed and injured. This is the only functional hospital in the area," the charity posted on social media platform X.
MSF's head of mission in Sudan, Mamman Mustapha, strongly condemned "the destruction of our hospital" and said that it had been "the only source of lifesaving care for over 40,000 people."
Mustapha said attacks on medical facilities were unacceptable and "a clear violation of international humanitarian law."
Fangak County official Biel Boutros Biel said the attacks were carried out by a drone and a plane in a recorded statement.
"These planes belonged to the government of South Sudan," he said, although the information could not immediately be verified.
The attack on the hospital, is the latest escalation in a government-led assault on opposition groups across the country.
Since March, government forces backed by Ugandan troops have conducted airstrikes targeting areas in neighboring Upper Nile State.
Fears grow of return to civil war in South Sudan
