PORT SUDAN, Sudan, Dec 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Two soldiers from Chad were killed Friday in an attack by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a town that sits on the countries' shared border, a Chadian military source told AFP.

Since April 2023, Sudan's army and the RSF have been locked in a conflict which has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced nearly 12 million and created the world's largest displacement and hunger crisis.

The RSF said Wednesday that it took control of the towns of Abu Qomra and Umm Brou in the north of Sudan's vast Darfur region, both of which are located on the road to the border town of Al-Tina.

The military source said an RSF drone bombed the Chadian side of the town, killing two soldiers.

Local sources told AFP that RSF fighters were advancing towards areas inhabited by the Zaghawa ethnic group on Sudan's northwest border, reviving memories of the deadly fighting in the 2000s that pitted Darfur tribes against the Janjaweed, the RSF's predecessor.

In the face of RSF attacks against Zaghawa areas, Darfur governor Minni Minawi, who is allied to Sudan's army, called on North Darfur residents to defend themselves.

"Do not let your lands be pillaged... or your homes given over to the invaders," he said on social media.

The conflict has effectively split Sudan in two, with the army controlling the north, east and centre while the RSF dominates all five state capitals in Darfur and, with its allies, parts of the south.