5/27/2023 0 Comments Western union caracasFor more, read this week’s rare report from the Jebel Marra by The New Humanitarian’s Philip Kleinfeld and Mohammed Amin. In its Jebel Marra mountain redoubt, the main faction of the Sudan Liberation Army, known as the SLA-AW, argues the killing of non-Arabs has continued and, rather than dropping its weapons, is training new recruits. ![]() That’s one reason why the region’s most powerful insurgent group has refused to sign a peace deal with Khartoum. The RSF, which recruits heavily from the Rizeigat, is led by a key member of the transitional government, which gives the military immunity for previous and current crimes. The violence in El Geneina was reportedly instigated by its own Rapid Support Forces, drawn largely from the former Janjaweed militia responsible for war crimes in the region in the 2000s. Khartoum has struggled to bring peace to Darfur. The state’s governor said his administration was unable to cope with the scale of the displacement. ![]() ![]() Sudan’s West Darfur State appealed this week for urgent help from the federal government to tackle the humanitarian fallout from clashes earlier this month between Arab Rizeigat and non-Arab Masalit communities in the city of El Geneina that left over 144 people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe.
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