Sudan's West Darfur Governor Khamis Abbakar, who accused paramilitary RSF and allied militias of 'genocide', has been killed by RSF in El Geneina city, Reuters reports
Abbakar had accused the RSF and allied militias of violence, which he called a "genocide". / Photo: TRT World
from El Geneina as gun and artillery fire could be heard, Abbakar had on Wednesday called for international intervention in what he described as a"genocide."While the RSF and allied militias had originally targeted areas of El Geneina where members of the Masalit tribe lived, these attacks had now spread to the entire city, he said.Activists say 1,100 people have been killed so far in the city.
Fighting rocked several vulnerable cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country's almost two-month-old war as the number of people who have fled their homes rose above two million. His special representative to Sudan, Volker Perthes, blamed"Arab militias and some armed men in RSF's uniform."
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