Sudan’s paramilitary fastest support forces have killed at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, after launching an assault on two camps affected by the famine in the Darfur region, the last escalation in a bitter civil war about to enter their third year.
The RSF went to the camps in Zamzam and Abu Shouk, where more than 700,000 people are taking refuge from the relentless violence that has killed tens of thousands, forcefully displaced 12.7 million people, and left 24.6 million people who face acute hunger, according to the United Nations.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, said on Saturday that the last attacks marked “another deadly and unacceptive climbing” in the conflict, and said that attacks against civilians and workers help “serious violations of international humanitarian law.”
“The colleagues of an international non -governmental organization were killed while operating one of the few remaining health positions that are still operational in the camp,” he said.
The war faces the Armed Forces of Sudan, led by the country’s de facto ruler, de facto general, Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against the RSF militia commanded by his former deputy, General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
The two were once allied within the Military Board that seized the control after the spectacular collapse of the government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in 2021. But his agreement to share the power fell apart quickly, which caused a war in April 2023.
Although both parties have been accused of extensive human rights violations, a UN research mission in October discovered that the RSF was responsible for making large -scale sexual violence in areas under its control, including rapes of gangs, kidnappings and sexual slavery.
In January, the United States determined that the RSF had committed genocide in areas under its control.
A UNICEF March report said that children as young as one had been sexually violated and assaulted by the Armed Forces, in the first integral account that illustrate how massive sexual violence is being exercised as a weapon of war against children in Sudan.
The agency documented more than 200 cases of child violation since the beginning of 2023, although the authors emphasized that this was just a small fraction of the total number of cases.
The last attacks occur when help groups fight with a financing crisis after President Donald Trump promulgated a 90 -day freezing in all foreign aid in February.
A network of communal kitchens has immediately had to stop the majority of its operations due to the lack of funds, of which 75% came from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), according to its organizers.
Abuzar Osman Suliman, coordinator of emergency response rooms in the western region of Darfur de Sudan, told NBC News in February that the 40 community kitchens of Errs had to close in the Zamzam camp.
The UN agencies have not been able to obtain substantial amounts of food relief for the Zamzam camp and a famine already declared in the camps in August, according to an analysis by the integrated classification of food security phase (CPI), an international system that establishes a scale used by the United Nations and governments.
Since then, famine has spread to four other areas of Sudan, according to the CPI, and is expected to be deepened and extended in the coming months due to war and access to humanitarian assistance.
