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EU 'appalled' by reports of 1,000 killed in Darfur, fearing ethnic cleansing

These Sudanese family fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, crossing the border to Chad, and arriving in Adre, on 26 July 2023. © REUTERS - ZOHRA BENSEMRA

The EU said Sunday it was "appalled" by reports of more than 1,000 people killed this month in Sudan's West Darfur in an apparent "ethnic cleansing campaign" by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

"These latest atrocities are seemingly part of a wider ethnic cleansing campaign conducted by the RSF with the aim to eradicate the non-Arab Masalit community from West Darfur, and comes on top of the first wave of large violence in June," the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement.

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