Dozens killed by paramilitary RSF in Sudan’s Gezira, aid groups say
Al Jazeera
UNICEF calls for more international attention to ‘the forgotten crisis’ as about 25.6 million people face acute hunger.
Dozens of civilians have been killed and thousands displaced in Sudan’s Gezira state, aid groups said, after several days of attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
A union of doctors and a youth group said the RSF attacked several villages and towns in the east-central state of Gezira, looting and vandalising public and private properties, and leaving dozens dead, The Associated Press news agency reported on Saturday.
RSF attacks in al-Sireha, a village in Gezira state, continued for three days, with 50 people killed in one day alone, according to aid groups that have been tracking the deaths and publishing the list, seen by Al Jazeera.
A network of activists from the area told the AFP news agency that the death toll from Friday’s attack was at least 50, while the Sudan News (sudanakhbar) website reported that as many as 124 people have been killed and 200 wounded so far.
Sudan plunged into conflict in April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo broke out in a conflict that has so far displaced more than 10 million people, according to data from the United Nations, and created one of the worst global humanitarian crises.
