Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur | Human Rights Watch
May 9, 2024 · Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees.
‘Six days of terror’ in West Darfur: Ethnically-based ... - UN News
Nov 17, 2023 · Hundreds of ethnic Masalit civilians were reportedly killed earlier this month in Ardamata town, West Darfur, by the RSF and their allied Arab militia. The RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed...
US sanctions Sudanese paramilitary commander for his role in West ...
1 day ago · CAIRO (AP) — The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur. The U.S. Department of Treasury said in a statement on Tuesday that Abdel Rahman Juma Barakallah led the Rapid Support Forces campaign in West Darfur, committing ...
10,000 reported killed in one West Darfur city, as ethnic ... - CNN
Jul 26, 2023 · CNN — More than 10,000 people have been killed in the Sudanese region of West Darfur in the past two months, tribal leaders say, amid a deadly conflict between two warring factions that has...
Shot at, drowned, executed: Hundreds of people in Darfur were …
Aug 16, 2023 · Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti...
Sudan keeps key aid crossing from Chad open for hard-hit Darfur …
22 hours ago · CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s military-controlled government said Wednesday that a key border crossing with Chad will stay open to keep much-needed humanitarian aid flowing into the western Darfur region which has been a center of fighting in the country’s ongoing war. The decision on the Adre crossing followed a meeting with United Nations ...
Sudan's Darfur conflict's latest surge in violence displaces ... - BBC
Jul 20, 2021 · The absence of joint UN-African Union (Unamid) peacekeepers is being felt by many in West Darfur. After 13 years on the ground, experts say their gradual withdrawal since December has been met...
Sudan: New Mass Ethnic Killings, Pillage in Darfur
Nov 27, 2023 · (Nairobi) – The Rapid Support Forces and their allied militias killed hundreds of civilians in West Darfur in early November 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. The forces also looted,...
Sudan Darfur crisis: 'Everything civilians can use has been ... - BBC
Entire villages in Sudan's West Darfur region have been burned to the ground by marauding militias, with aid agencies now warning the region is on the brink of a "humanitarian catastrophe".
Genocide fears surge as Darfur refugees recount ethnic violence - NBC News
Sep 9, 2023 · West Darfur has become a flashpoint in the power struggle that broke out in April between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military that destabilized the nation and...