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Mat Nashed

‘They’re going to kill us’: Sudan’s army targets civilians on ethnic basis

Sudanese military personnel - shown here in Gedaref city on January 14, 2024 - have been arresting large numbers of people from regions where the rival Rapid Support Forces paramilitary has backing [AFP]

In December, Osman Arbab*, 24, and his younger brother were on a bus just outside Atbara, Sudan, when military intelligence stopped it and asked which of the passengers were from Darfur or Kordofan.

The two men are originally from Kordofan, even though they have not lived there for years, and found themselves bundled up with all the other young men on the bus who were from the two places.

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