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Darfur attacks and drones
On 14 June, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) looted and burned eight villages in Um Baru locality, North Darfur, killing at least 5 residents, though the death toll is not confirmed.
“The Sudanese government has accused the Rapid Support Forces of running an organized network for human organ trafficking inside the Daqris and Shala prisons in Nyala, South Darfur, and El Fasher, North Darfur, respectively, both detention centers under RSF control”
IDN-InDepthNews also reports that there have been daily drone strikes launched by the RSF in El Obeid, North Kordofan, since 10 July, targeting fuel stations.
The drone strikes in Sudan killed 35 people last week, with 23 of those deaths in El Obeid, according to the same situation report.
In Blue Nile on 13 June, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) repelled an attack by the RSF and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), as the report describes.
The report adds that SAF accused the RSF of organ trafficking, as well as torture and starvation in mass detention centres in Darfur, where the detention centres collectively hold over 20,000 people including children.
Khartoum accuses organ trafficking
Al-Jazeera Net reports that the Sudanese government accused the RSF of running an organized network for human organ trafficking inside the Daqris and Shala prisons in Nyala, South Darfur, and El Fasher, North Darfur, respectively.
The accusation was submitted in a memorandum by the Sudanese Permanent Mission to the United Nations to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, with details published by the SUNA News Agency.
The memorandum says it documents "grave violations" of international humanitarian law against more than 21,000 detainees and prisoners of war in the Daqris Prison in Nyala and the Shala Prison in El Fasher, both detention centers under RSF control.
It further states that the government received "very troubling reports" about "organized organ trafficking" operations inside one RSF prison, and that foreign medical personnel believed to be from Colombia and Serbia are suspected of removing organs from some detainees.
The memorandum describes victims being selected from detainees of the Sudanese Armed Forces and joint forces under the pretext of release, transferred to foreign elements in Nyala for organ removal, and then buried inside the headquarters of the 16th Infantry Division to conceal the crime scene.
Transnational drivers and detention
Just Security frames Sudan as a transnational marketplace of violence, arguing that the most consequential drivers sustaining the conflict are beyond Sudan’s borders, including foreign States and private military contractors.
“The conflict in Sudan is often described as a civil war between the government-backed Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)”
It says Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirms earlier findings corroborated by other investigative organizations, including the Sentry and Conflict Insights, that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) operation supplying arms and Colombian mercenaries to the RSF is linked to the highest levels of the UAE government.
Just Security also quotes a Colombian mercenary describing a meeting with top Emirati officials, saying “the [Emirati nationals] commanded everything.”
In parallel, Al-Jazeera Net reports that the Sudan mission says the RSF holds about 19,800 detainees and prisoners of war in the Daqris Prison in Nyala, including 3,795 members of the Sudanese Armed Forces and 5,000 civilians from El Fasher.
The Al-Jazeera Net memorandum adds that reports indicate the death of about 300 injured detainees in the past two months due to contaminated wounds, untreated injuries, and infections resulting from the lack of medical care, while calling on the UN Security Council, the UN Secretary-General, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to condemn the violations and work toward release.
