April 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Around one hundred people were killed in a series of attacks carried out by militias allied to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the state of South Kordofan, in southern Sudan, within the framework of the war that broke out in April 2023 between this group and the Sudanese Army.
Sources cited by the Sudanese radio station Radio Dabanga have detailed that the attacks were carried out on Friday and Saturday in the Qurdud Nyama region and have added that among the hundred dead there is an undefined number of children, before warning that the balance of victims could be even higher.
Thus, the militiamen broke into the villages of El Laban and El Salamat, as well as in areas north of El Abasiya, where they also carried out looting and burning homes in these localities, under the control of the People's Liberation Movement faction. of Sudan (SPLM-N) headed by Abdelaziz al Hilu.
In this sense, several residents have regretted the lack of protection by the SPLM-El Hilu forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces, who for the moment have not commented on these assaults, something that the RSF has not done either, now declared as a terrorist organization by Khartoum.
The war between the Sudanese Army and the RSF broke out in April 2023 due to strong disagreements regarding the integration process of the paramilitary group within the Armed Forces, a situation that caused the derailment of the transition opened in 2019 after the overthrow of the then president, Omar Hassan al Bashir, in a military coup.
The conflict has left more than six million internally displaced people – adding to the nearly three million previously displaced – and has pushed more than 1.7 million people to cross into neighboring countries. Furthermore, the World Food Program (WFP) warned in March that the war could become “the largest hunger crisis in the world,” after already being the largest displacement crisis worldwide.
