A child holds up bullets collected from the ground in Rounyn, a village in North Darfur. Credit: UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
In Sudan, amidst the civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began in Khartoum in April 2023, RSF and allied militias have systematically attacked ethnic Masalit communities in El Geneina in West Darfur, on the border with Chad. Thousands of people have been killed, raped, and tortured for being Masalit and nearly 300,000 have fled to makeshift camps Chad. RSF forces, then known as the Janjaweed, were previously implicated in mass atrocities in Darfur.
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Security Topics: Identity Conflict