Comments

You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

Africa Horn

Hundreds flee paramilitary attack in Sudan's Darfur: Witnesses

2023-08-14

[AlAhram] Attacks by Sudanese paramilitaries on Sunday sent hundreds of civilians fleeing a major city in Darfur, residents told AFP as battles against the regular army intensify in the restive western region.

Darfur, as well as Sudan's capital Khartoum, have borne the brunt of nearly four months of fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

One resident told AFP hundreds of people have been displaced from Nyala, Sudan's second largest city and capital of South Darfur state, where "rockets are falling on houses".

The war erupted in Khartoum on April 15 between the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Daglo. At least 3,900 people have been killed nationwide, according to a conservative estimate by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. More than four million people have been uprooted from their homes, according to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
refugee agency.

Witnesses said on Sunday that RSF paramilitaries had attacked Nyala with "dozens of military vehicles" and that "hundreds of residents are fleeing intense artillery fire".

Fighting in the latest conflict has concentrated on El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, where the United Nations suspects that crimes against humanity have been committed.

Several sources allege there have been massacres of civilians and ethnically motivated killings in Darfur, attributed to paramilitary forces and allied Arab militias. Researchers at Yale University in the United States say that at least 27 villages in Darfur have been razed to the ground by the RSF and its allies since April.

"The ferocity and volume of the violence at least equals the genocide in 2003-2004," Nathaniel Raymond of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health told AFP.

"The RSF and Arab allied militias are moving methodically and quickly without impediment. They chose the time and place and attack to liquidate civilian communities," he said.

Fighting was also reported on Sunday in Khartoum's battle-scarred sister city of Omdurman just across the Nile, where one resident reported "artillery fire".

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 Do you have better sources, and won't share?

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-14 23:45

#1 Reporting on Darfur is execrable. Note: "Several sources allege there have been massacres of civilians and ethnically motivated killings in Darfur, attributed to paramilitary forces and allied Arab militias."
No mention is ever made of just who the allied Arab militias might be. Al Ahram simply does not want to point out that this is a battle between African and Arab forces.

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-08-14 09:01

00:00