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Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur

A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in el-Geneina in Sudan's Darfur region, in Ourang on the outskirts of Adre in Chad [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias killed “at least thousands of people” in West Darfur state, an international rights group has said, in what it called apparent “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”.

In a report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that RSF attacks on the Masalit tribe and other non-Arab groups between April and November 2023 were some of the worst atrocities in the ongoing civil war which started that April.

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