Refugees fleeing from fighting in Chad have reported a spate of new killings in Sudan’s West Darfur by Islamic jihadists and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Reuters reported three refugees crossing from Darfur into Chad said they witnessed Islamic terrorists and RSF forces targeting the Masalit ethnic group in Ardamata, an outlying district in El Geneina.
The outlet reported earlier this year, that the same groups conducted weeks of attacks targeting the Masalit, El Geneina’s majority ethnic African tribe.
Arab tribal leaders have denied any involvement in ethnic cleansing in the region. The RSF said it was not involved in what it called a tribal conflict.
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Conservative political pundit Walid Phares took to the social platform X earlier this week to raise attention to the latest Darfur escalation in a series of posts.
Monday, Phares included a photo of dead bodies lying in the street of one village as proof that the genocidal attacks have resumed.
“Reports from West #Darfur received today unveil that 773 African civilians including mostly teenagers, but women and elderly as well, have been massacred
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