Sudan - October 2024

In October, the end of the rainy season precipitated an intensification of fighting in Sudan’s civil war and early reports indicated that it had exacted a heavy civilian toll. In North Darfur state, for example, dozens of people are thought to have been killed in attacks on displacement camps, hospitals and markets. At least 23 civilians died in an air strike on a market in the capital Khartoum, alleged to have been conducted by the Sudanese Armed Forces. In el-Gezira, a state in eastern-central Sudan, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were reported to have carried out ethnically targeted attacks on at least thirty villages. According to the UN, these attacks resembled those perpetrated by the RSF in Darfur, and involved mass killings, sexual violence and looting. An estimated 46,700 people were displaced by the attacks in el-Gezira over the course of a single week.      

Sources: International Crisis Group, Yale University, Africa Confidential, New York Times, United Nations (1), United Nations (2), International IDEA