Fighting between Sudan’s military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued Friday, hours into the latest ceasefire, eyewitnesses in the country said, as officials warned that scores have been killed in “deadly ethnic clashes” in West Darfur’s capital city El Geneina since the beginning of the week.
The situation across Sudan has deteriorated, with shortages of vital water and food supplies, and reports of widespread looting, with hospitals being targeted. The conflict has seen more than 50,000 people flee to Sudan to Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic, the United Nations said Friday.
Sudan’s Armed Forces, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF paramilitary group, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, agreed Thursday to extend an ongoing ceasefire for 72 hours, but violence continued to rattle restive Darfur, where a war between rebels and government forces backed by militias claimed nearly 300,000 lives in the early 2000s.
Recent fighting concentrated in El Geneina has been between Arab militias and civilians, according to Ahmed Gouja, founder of Darfur Network for Monitoring and Documentation, speaking from Nyala in South Darfur.
Local civilians have armed themselves with weapons from the city’s police station headquarters, said Gouja.
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