RSF Attacks Near Chad Border Destroy Villages, Displace Thousands in North Darfur

A series of attacks carried out by the Rapid Support Forces near the western border with Chad destroyed several villages and displaced thousands of people, according to Najian and the United Nations.

“Khartoum — About 20 Sudanese displaced people were killed on Thursday, July 4, on the desert road linking the Al-Tina area in the country’s west with the town of El Doba to the north, in the latest chapter of the tragedies suffered by those fleeing the hell of war in Darfur”

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The UN’s migration agency reported that more than 3,500 people were forced to flee on Friday from the village of Wadi Fungou in the Am Bro locality of North Darfur.

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Isa Ibrahim, 35, told AFP that dozens of RSF vehicles swept through his village of Umm Marahiq last week, pounding houses with artillery and leaving people dead in the streets after he sent his wife and children to Chad.

Mohammed Adam, 43, said two of his brothers were killed in the attack on their village Qarbro, where fighters burned the houses and killed people except those who managed to flee.

In El-Obeid, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning escalating violence by the Rapid Support Forces and ordered the formation of an urgent investigative committee into abuses there.

Britain submitted the resolution with the participation of 14 other countries, warning of the danger of wide-scale atrocities as the RSF continues to mobilize its forces and impose a siege on the city.

Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat

Eleanor Sanders, Britain’s ambassador for human rights, told the council that it is essential not to repeat these atrocities, while South Africa’s ambassador described the situation as a red alert.

The RSF denied these abuses and called them fabrications, and issued counter-charges against its opponents, as the council’s decision was adopted unanimously though China abstained.

Military clashes resumed between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces on multiple fronts in Darfur as tensions rose around El Obied, the capital of North Kordofan state, which saw increasing military mobilizations from both sides.

“Today, Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning the escalating violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, and ordered the formation of an urgent investigative committee into the abuses there”

Ajil

Over the past two days, the Sudanese army and the joint forces allied with it conducted military operations in West and North Darfur states, targeting border and strategic areas as part of efforts to extend their field influence and open new fronts for fighting.

Hashem Abdul Mutalib, the former Chief of Staff of the Sudanese Army, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the army and allied forces carried out what he described as a successful maneuver that returned fighting to Darfur, seeing this as a development in how military operations are managed.

The allied joint forces announced on Monday that they had taken control of Kalbas, a town in West Darfur state near the Chad border, while confirming continued control over Al Tina, Kernowi, and Ambro in the north of the region.