A regional governor has been killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on Sudan’s paramilitary Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) amid an enlargement of the nation’s virtually two-month-old conflict into cities within the west of the nation,
West Darfur state governor Khamis Abakar was killed on Wednesday, an armed group he commanded mentioned, hours after he accused the RSF and allied fighters of “genocide“.
Particulars on his dying had been unavailable however the Reuters information company reported that two authorities sources mentioned the RSF was liable for the killing.
The Sudanese military additionally took to social media to accuse the RSF of “kidnapping and assassinating” the governor. The killing had added a “new chapter” to the RSF’s “report of barbaric crimes that it has been committing towards all of the Sudanese folks”, the military mentioned on Fb, calling the incident a “brutal act”.
Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan stories from Omdurman, throughout the Nile River from the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
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