Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed nearly 300 people in attacks in North Kordofan state that began on Saturday, according to Sudanese activists. The RSF has been fighting the Sudanese army in the area, one of the key frontlines of a civil war in Sudan that has raged since April 2023.
The Emergency Lawyers human rights group said on Monday that the RSF attacked several villages on Saturday around the city of Bara, which the paramilitary controls. The group said more than 200 people were killed in the village of Shag Alnom and 46 people — including pregnant women and children — were killed in Hilat Hamid. Looting raids on other villages killed 38 civilians and dozens more people were missing, it added.
Sudan’s civil war has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, driving more than half the population into hunger and spreading diseases including cholera across the country. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 12 million people have fled their homes since the fighting broke out two years ago, and a global reduction in aid spending has stretched the humanitarian response.
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