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Sudanese civilians killed trying to flee Darfur city

More than 2.5 million people, most from Khartoum and Darfur, have been uprooted by the war in Sudan. Photo: AAP

An increasing number of Sudanese civilians fleeing El Geneina, a city in Darfur hit by repeated militia attacks, are being killed or shot at as they try to escape by foot to Chad, witnesses say.

The violence in El Geneina in the past two months has been driven by militias from Arab nomadic tribes along with members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a military faction engaged in a power struggle with Sudan’s army in the capital, Khartoum, witnesses and activists said.

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