BREAKING: The United Nations says the bodies of at least 87 people allegedly killed by Sudanese paramilitary and allied militia have been uncovered in a mass grave near the west Darfur city of Geinina.
since April 15 when tensions between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces erupted into open fighting.
Darfur has been at the epicentre of the 12-week conflict, morphing into ethnic violence with RSF troops and allied Arab militias attacking African ethnic groups. The RSF and allied Arab militias rampaged through the western province, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, according to rights groups, with many crossing the border into neighbouring Chad. Amid the pillaging, entire towns and villages in the province of West Darfur have been burned to the ground and looted,
Darfur had been the scene of genocidal war in the early 2000s, when ethnic Africans rebelled, accusing the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum of discrimination. Former dictator Omar al-Bashir’s government was accused of retaliating by arming local nomadic Arab tribes, known as Janjaweed, who targeted civilians.Jamey Keaten contributed to this report from Geneva.
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