According to a statement from Sudan’s Doctors Syndicate, at least 100 persons were killed in hostilities that broke out between armed forces in the city of Genena in Darfur last month.
In a statement published late Sunday on its official Facebook page, the doctors’ organisation stated that it was still difficult to determine the exact number of injured.
Conflict in Genena, which started a few days after Sudan’s two rival generals began battling in the capital city of Khartoum, suggested that the violence would spread to other regions of the East African country.
The doctors’ union did not name the two parties involved in the fights in this metropolis of around 500,000 people, close to the Chadian border, which has been a flashpoint from the beginning of the war.
According to the same doctors’ statement, at least 481 people were killed in hostilities in Khartoum that broke out in the middle of April between the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the RSF, led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. More than 2,560 civilians have been injured, a sharp increase.
Residents told how armed fighters rampaged through the city late last month, plundering stores and residences while engaging in combat with competing troops. Many of the gunmen were dressed in the Rapid Support troops paramilitary uniform.
They claimed that the conflict was including tribal militias and was exploiting long-standing animosities between the two main communities in the area, one that considers itself Arab and the other East or Central African.
According to the same doctors’ statement, at least 481 people were killed in hostilities in Khartoum that broke out in the middle of April between the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the RSF, led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. More than 2,560 civilians have been injured, a sharp increase.
In Darfur, African tribes that had long complained about injustice rose up against the government of Khartoum in the early 2000s. The government of Khartoum reacted with a military operation, which the International Criminal Court later deemed to be genocide.
The Janjaweed, a state-sponsored Arab militia, has been charged with several rapes, murders, and other atrocities. The RSF, formerly known as the Janjaweed, is a paramilitary organisation that originated from the Janjaweed.