Ethnic violence takes up to 15,000 lives in 1 Sudan city, UN report reveals

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people lost their lives 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 an article published by VOA citing Reuters.

In the report to the United Nations Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors said the United Arab Emirates had possibly provided military support to the RSF “several times per week” via Amdjarass in northern Chad. A top Sudanese general accused the UAE in November of backing the RSF war effort.

Between April and June last year El Geneina experienced “intense violence,” the monitors wrote, accusing the RSF and allies of targeting the ethnic African Masalit tribe in attacks that “may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”