Many residents were forced to leave their houses as the RSF retargeted the villages of Al-Fuwwar, Salim, Abu Karna, Abara, Umm Kurak, Ajjan, Ma’ijna, and Umm Wazain, according to a Sudanese rights group.
According to local activists, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched fresh attacks on eight villages in the city of Meheiriba in central Al-Jazira State, killing at least eight people and injuring a number more.
According to a statement released Thursday by the Sudanese rights organization Middle Call, “the RSF has been attacking villages in western Meheiriba since Wednesday, beginning with the village of Al-Fuwwar, which caused the majority of residents to flee from the village and its surrounding areas.”
Along with sporadic and heavy artillery shelling, the RSF resumed its operations on Thursday, focusing on the villages of Al-Fuwwar, Salim, Abu Karna, Abara, Umm Kurak, Ajjan, Ma’ijna, and Umm Wazain. Eight persons have already died as a result of this, and many have been injured,” it continued.
Additionally, it mentioned that an unknown number of individuals are missing from the communities as a result of the strikes.
According to the statement, residents of the eight villages are continuously being displaced “out of fear of potential actions by the RSF against them.”
Deaths and relocations
With the exception of the city of Al-Manaqil and the surrounding territories, which extend westward to the boundary of White Nile State and southward to the border of Sennar State, the RSF now controls sizable portions of Al-Jazira.
According to the UN, the fight between the paramilitary RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces, which began in mid-April of last year, has killed over 20,000 people and displaced about 10 million more.
Approximately 3 million people escaped to neighboring countries, primarily Ethiopia, Egypt, Chad, and the Central African Republic.
As the violence has extended to 13 of Sudan’s 18 states, the war has driven millions of Sudanese to the verge of starvation and death from food shortages, prompting demands from the UN and other international organizations to cease the conflict.
