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Jan
21
2024
By MICHELLE NICHOLS and MAGGIE MICHAEL
Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead, UN report says

Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead, UN report says

NEWS
BETWEEN 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters. In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll in El Geneina to intelligence sources and contrasted it with the U.N. estimate that about 12,000 people have been killed across Sudan since war erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese army and the RSF. The monitors also described as "credible" accusations that the United Arab…
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Nov
09
2023
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Darfur refugees report new spate of ethnically driven killings

Darfur refugees report new spate of ethnically driven killings

NEWS
PEOPLE fleeing to Chad have reported a new surge in ethnically-driven killings in Sudan's West Darfur as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the main army base in the state capital, El Geneina. On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter saw a trail of men crossing from Darfur into Chad at Adre, about 27 km (17 miles) west of El Geneina. Three of those who fled said they had witnessed killings by Arab militias and RSF forces targeting the Masalit ethnic group in Ardamata, an outlying district in El Geneina that is home to the army base and a camp for internally…
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Apr
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Fighting pauses in Sudan, death toll reaches 87

Fighting pauses in Sudan, death toll reaches 87

NEWS
AN uneasy calm was restored to the capital of Sudan's West Darfur yesterday, residents said, after five days of fighting between Arab and Masalit tribesmen in which scores of people were killed. A local doctors committee said 87 people had been killed and 191 injured since Saturday in the fighting in the city, El Geneina. The violence is a new flare-up of a conflict that saw deadly clashes earlier this year and in 2019, amid deteriorating security across Darfur. Residents told Reuters the streets had finally grown quieter, with government troops deployed for the first time since a state of…
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Apr
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Tribal clashes death toll climbs to 56

Tribal clashes death toll climbs to 56

NEWS
THE death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan's West Darfur has risen to 56, with 132 wounded, the United Nations and a local doctors committee said yesterday. The bloodshed is the latest in a resurgence of violence in the Darfur region since the signing of a peace agreement late last year and the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers. The government declared a state of emergency in the state on Monday after clashes beginning on Saturday in the state capital El Geneina. Sudan's Cabinet said in a statement that the interior minister would be heading to El Geneina soon. According…
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