MORE than 300 civilians have been killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan’s conflict-wracked Darfur region, according to the United Nations humanitarian agency, as the country’s brutal civil war nears the two-year mark.

The attacks launched by Sudan’s notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on two famine-hit camps for displaced people in North Darfur and its nearby capital on Friday and Saturday were initially reported to have left more than 100 dead, including 20 children and nine aid workers, according to a UN official.

But the world body’s Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported the much higher death toll on Monday, citing local sources.