Sudan militia accused of mass killings and sexual violence as attacks escalate
GuardianOCT 20 2024
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday warned that the Sudanese people were living a “nightmare” of hunger, disease, and ethnic violence amid the world's largest displacement crisis. Guterres, however, also said that the conditions were not right yet to deploy a UN force.
Guterres sought "decisive action" by ally-turned-rival generals Abdel-Fattah al Burhan, heading the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end the violence. He said 18 months into the war, 25M people now need humanitarian aid.
The UN has reported that since fighting erupted between the army (SAF) and the paramilitary RSF in April 2023, at least 12,260 people having died and over 33K injured. Mass killings and sexual violence are reportedly ravaging the country, leaving the people distraught.
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