57 civilian deaths in persistent fighting in Sudanese region Darfur

In the Sudanese region of Darfur, at least 57 citizens were killed on Wednesday in fighting between the government army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This is reported by the AFP news agency on Thursday based on medical care providers on site. The dead fell in fighting for the city of Al-Fashir, provincial capital of the North Darfur region. Al-Fashir is the only city in the Darfur region that is still in the hands of the government army.

Last weekend also found in the same region deadly violence place. According to the United Nations, more than four hundred people were killed in attacks by RSF on Al-Fashir and two refugee camps. According to the UN, 400,000 people became displaced again by the attacks in the camps.

The civil war in Sudan started two years ago. The paramilitary group RSF led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo opposes the government army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. In two years of civil war according to the UN Tens of thousands of people killed and more than twelve million people were displaced.

Ethnic purification

RSF attacks in the Darfur region, in western Sudan, have been described as ethnic purification by human judge organization Human Rights Watch. The violence regularly focuses on the Masalit, an ethnic minority group in Sudan and neighboring Chad. There is also increasing famine in Sudan. The situation in the country is one of the greatest humanitarian crises in the world.

On Tuesday, exactly two years after the start of the civil war, RSF announced that it wants to form an alternative government. In the new government to be formed, RSF leader Dag Alo wants fifteen members to take place, a on behalf of every region of the country. In fact, RSF only has military control over the west and the south of the country. RSF recently lost ground compared to the government army, the paramilitary group was driven out of, among other things, the centrally located capital Khartoem.

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